Commentary: Reference-test bias in diagnostic-test evaluation: A problem for epidemiologists, too

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-85

  Miller, William C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 83655198183     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31823b5b5b     Document Type: Note

References (23)

1. Begg CB. Biases in the assessment of diagnostic tests. Stat Med. 1987;6:411-423. (Pubitemid 17110905)
2. Boyko EJ, Alderman BW, Baron AE. Reference test errors bias the evaluation of diagnostic tests for ischemic heart disease. J Gen Intern Med. 1988;3:476-481.
3. Reitsma JB, Rutjes AW, Khan KS, Coomarasamy A, Bossuyt PM. A review of solutions for diagnostic accuracy studies with an imperfect or missing reference standard. J Clin Epidemiol. 2009;62:797-806.
4. Schachter J, Stamm WE, Quinn TC, Andrews WW, Burczak JD, Lee HH. Ligase chain reaction to detect Chlamydia trachomatis infection of the cervix. J Clin Microbiol. 1994;32:2540-2543. (Pubitemid 24284660)
5. Wiesenfeld HC, Uhrin M, Dixon BW, Sweet RL. Diagnosis of male Chlamydia trachomatis urethritis by polymerase chain reaction. Sex Transm Dis. 1994;21:268-271. (Pubitemid 24348462)
6. Vuorinen P, Miettinen A, Vuento R, Hallstrom O. Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens by Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Direct Test and Roche Amplicor Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Test. J Clin Microbiol. 1995;33: 1856-1859.
7. Schachter J. Two different worlds we live in. Clin Infect Dis. 1998;27: 1181-1185.
8. Hadgu A. The discrepancy in discrepant analysis. Lancet. 1996;348: 592-593. (Pubitemid 26283894)
9. Hadgu A. Bias in the evaluation of DNA-amplification tests for detecting Chlamydia trachomatis. Stat Med. 1997;16:1391-1399. (Pubitemid 27292271)
10. Miller WC. Bias in discrepant analysis: when two wrongs don't make a right. J Clin Epidemiol. 1998;51:219-231. (Pubitemid 28122071)
11. Miller WC. Can we do better than discrepant analysis for new diagnostic test evaluation? Clin Infect Dis. 1998;27:1186-1193.
12. Hilden J. Discrepant analysis-or behaviour? Lancet. 1997;350:902.
13. Schachter J, Stamm WE, Quinn TC. Discrepant analysis and screening for Chlamydia trachomatis. Lancet. 1996;348:1308-1309.
14. Schachter J, Stamm WE, Quinn TC. Discrepant analysis and screening for Chlamydia trachomatis. Lancet. 1998;351:217-218. (Pubitemid 28037026)
15. Hadgu A, Dendukuri N, Wang L. Evaluation of screening tests for detecting infection: bias associated with the patient-infected-status algorithm. Epidemiology. 2012;23:72-82.
16. Martin DH, Nsuami M, Schachter J, et al. Use of multiple nucleic acid amplification tests to define the infected-patient "gold standard" in clinical trials of new diagnostic tests for Chlamydia trachomatis infections. J Clin Microbiol. 2004;42:4749-4758. (Pubitemid 39362398)
17. Chernesky MA, Martin DH, Hook EW, et al. Ability of new APTIMA CT and APTIMA GC assays to detect Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in male urine and urethral swabs. J Clin Microbiol. 2005;43:127-131. (Pubitemid 40096289)
18. Schachter J, Chernesky MA, Willis DE, et al. Vaginal swabs are the specimens of choice when screening for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: results from a multicenter evaluation of the APTIMA assays for both infections. Sex Transm Dis. 2005;32:725-728. (Pubitemid 41752557)
19. Hadgu A, Qu Y. A biomedical application of latent class models with random effects. J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat. 1998;47:603-616.
20. Qu Y, Tan M, Kutner MH. Random effects models in latent class analysis for evaluating accuracy of diagnostic tests. Biometrics. 1996; 52:797-810. (Pubitemid 26296059)
21. Hui SL, Walter SD. Estimating the error rates of diagnostic tests. Biometrics. 1980;36:167-171.
22. Dendukuri N, Hadgu A, Wang L. Modeling conditional dependence between diagnostic tests: a multiple latent variable model. Stat Med. 2009;28:441-461.
23. Enoe C, Georgiadis MP, Johnson WO. Estimation of sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests and disease prevalence when the true disease state is unknown. Prev Vet Med. 2000;45:61-81. (Pubitemid 30308340)