Bias-corrected diagnostic performance of the naked eye single tube red cell osmotic fragility test (NESTROFT): An effective screening tool for β-thalassemia

Hematology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-286

  Mamtani, Manju ^a,b   Jawahirani, Anil ^b,c   Das, Kishor ^d   Rughwani, Vinky ^b   Kulkarni, Hemant ^a  

^a Lata Medical Research Foundation   (India)

^b Thalassemia Society of India   (India)

^c Superspeciality Hospital and Postgraduate Institute ^*  (India)

^d Anthropological Survey of India   (India)

Author keywords

thalassemia; Osmotic fragility; Reference test bias; Sensitivity and specificity; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE FRAGILITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; INDIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OSMOTIC FRAGILITY; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845697321     PISSN: 10245332     EISSN: 16078454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10245330600915875     Document Type: Article

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