How accurate are rapid influenza diagnostic tests?

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 615-617

  Chartrand, Caroline ^a   Pai, Madhukar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

accuracy; diagnosis; influenza; rapid diagnostic tests; RIDTs; sensitivity; specificity

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RAPID INFLUENZA DIAGNOSTIC TEST; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863206437     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.12.49     Document Type: Editorial

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