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The Meaning of Diagnostic Test Results: A Spreadsheet for Swift Data Analysis
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A spreadsheet is useful for contingency table data analysis and assessment of the clinical meaning of diagnostic test results and Bayes' theorem was incorporated to generate individual post-test probabilities.About:
This article is published in Clinical Radiology.The article was published on 2000-03-01. It has received 75 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contingency table & Population.read more
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Kidney biomarkers and differential diagnosis of patients with cirrhosis and acute kidney injury
Justin M. Belcher,Arun J. Sanyal,Aldo J. Peixoto,Mark A. Perazella,Joseph K. Lim,Heather Thiessen-Philbrook,Naheed Ansari,Steven G. Coca,Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao,Chirag R. Parikh +9 more
TL;DR: Urinary biomarkers of kidney injury are elevated in patients with cirrhosis and AKI due to ATN, and incorporation into clinical decision making has the potential to more accurately guide treatment by establishing which patients have structural injury underlying their AKI.
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Diagnostic validity and added value of the geriatric depression scale for depression in primary care: A meta-analysis of GDS30 and GDS15
TL;DR: It is estimated that the potential gain of the GDS(15) in primary care to be 8% over unassisted clinical detection but at a cost of 3-4 minutes of extra time per appointment, while the G DS(30) is recommended but not in the diagnosis of late-life depression inPrimary care.
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MR nerve imaging in a prospective cohort of patients with suspected carpal tunnel syndrome.
Jeffrey G. Jarvik,Eric C. Yuen,David R. Haynor,Cynthia M. Bradley,Deborah Fulton-Kehoe,Terri Smith-Weller,Rae Wu,Michel Kliot,George H. Kraft,Lei Wang,V. Erlich,Patrick J. Heagerty,Gary M. Franklin +12 more
TL;DR: The reliability of MRI is high but the diagnostic accuracy is only moderate compared with a research-definition reference standard, and median nerve area was larger at the distal radioulnar joint in patients with CTS.
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Meta-analysis: Accuracy of Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography for Assessing Steno-occlusions in Peripheral Arterial Disease
Jan Menke,Jörg Larsen +1 more
TL;DR: This meta-analysis of 32 prospective studies further increases the evidence that contrast-enhanced MRA has high accuracy for identifying or excluding clinically relevant arterial steno-occlusions in adults with PAD symptoms.
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Screening and case finding tools for the detection of dementia. Part I: evidence-based meta-analysis of multidomain tests.
TL;DR: Evidence to date suggests for those wishing to use brief battery tests then the original MMSE or the AMTS should be considered in primary care and either the 6-CIT or the MINI-COG should be considering in specialist settings.
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Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM
TL;DR: This chapter discusses how to ask clinical questions you can answer and critically assess the evidence for evidence-based medicine, as well as 7 Rapid Reference Cards used in clinical practice.
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Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine
TL;DR: Clinical Epidemiology is a book dedicated to H.L. Mencken, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Douglas Adams, and the Emperor's New Clothes and Physicians and others who wish to recognize key clinical epidemiologic features of the diagnosis and management of patients will benefit from reading.
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Confidence intervals rather than P values: estimation rather than hypothesis testing.
TL;DR: Some methods of calculating confidence intervals for means and differences between means are given, with similar information for proportions, and the paper also gives suggestions for graphical display.
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Primer on Certain Elements of Medical Decision Making
TL;DR: Principals of statistical decision theory and information theory suggest technics for objectively determining these cutoff points, depending upon whether the physician is concerned with health costs, with financial costs, or with the information content of the test.