Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A ...

The majority of methods try to impute, adjust or construct a reference standard in an effort to obtain the familiar diagnostic accuracy statistics, ...

Health Technology Assessment Volume: 11, Issue: 50, Published in November 2007.

Evaluation of diagnostic tests without gold standards - PubMed

This paper reviews statistical methods developed to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of screening or diagnostic tests when the fallible tests are not ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A ...

A classification of methods to evaluate medical tests when there is no gold standard is generated and the majority of methods try to impute, ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard

Determining accuracy is a key step in the health technology assessment of medical tests. Researchers evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of a test often ...

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Abstract. To generate a classification of methods to evaluate medical tests when there is no gold standard. ... All methods available were ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests without gold standards - Sage Journals

This paper reviews statistical methods developed to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of screening or diagnostic tests when the fallible tests are not ...

A systematic review of methods employed to evaluate diagnostic ...

To systematically review methods developed and employed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of medical test when there is a missing or no gold standard.

Methods for Evaluating the Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests

In actual clinical setting, it is often difficult to obtain an appropriate gold standard for diagnosis, and in this case, consent is required as ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests - ScienceDirect.com

The gold standard test may be more difficult, risky, expensive or not easily available but it should unequivocally tell us whether the disease is present or ...

Evaluating Diagnostic Tests in the Absence of a Gold Standard

No gold-standard for many types of TB. • Example 1: TB pleuritis ... – When several standard tests are available it is unclear which combination to use ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests without gold standards - Sage Journals

The true disease status is the `gold standard' against which a test should be measured. However, there are many diseases for which the de®nitive diagnosis is ...

Comparison of screening tests without a gold standard—A ...

Well-defined diagnostic gold standards are rarely available for the diagnosis of rare diseases such as some tropical infections.

Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard

The absence of a gold standard measure prevents the assessment of criterion validity, and it has been proposed that the term 'reference standard' be used in ...

Clinical Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests | AJR

This test or procedure is called the “gold standard” (or “standard of reference,” “reference standard,” particularly when there is no perfect gold standard).

A review of solutions for diagnostic accuracy studies with an ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A review of methods. Health Technol Assess 2007;11:50. [8] Bossuyt PM, Reitsma JB, Bruns DE ...

No need for a gold-standard test: on the mining of diagnostic test ...

Diagnostic tests are important in clinical medicine. To determine the test performance indices — test sensitivity, specificity, ...

Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A review of methods. Health Technol Assess 2007; 11(50):iii, ix-51. Whiting P, Rutjes AW ...

Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard ... - Scite

In situations that deviate only marginally from the classical diagnostic accuracy paradigm, these are valuable methods. However, in situations where an ...

Latent Class Models in Diagnostic Studies When There is No ...

The use of an imperfect reference standard will often lead to misclassification of the disease status in a substantial portion of subjects, ...