Diagnostic test evaluation methodology: a systematic review of methods employed to evaluate diagnostic tests in the absence of gold standard–an update

CM Umemneku Chikere, K Wilson, S Graziadio… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objective To systematically review methods developed and employed to evaluate the
diagnostic accuracy of medical test when there is a missing or no gold standard. Study …

Evaluating latent tuberculosis infection diagnostics using latent class analysis

JE Stout, Y Wu, CS Ho, AC Pettit, PJ Feng, DJ Katz… - Thorax, 2018 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Lack of a gold standard for latent TB infection has precluded direct
measurement of test characteristics of the tuberculin skin test and interferon-γ release …

Performance of IS6110-LAMP assay for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in blood and urine samples from patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis

RM Araújo, R de Albuquerque Montenegro… - Tuberculosis, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) shows numerous
difficulties because of non-specific symptomatology and low sensitivity of conventional …

Long-lasting cough in an adult German population: incidence, symptoms, and related pathogens

R Weinberger, M Riffelmann, N Kennerknecht… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Studies of the incidence of pertussis in adults have shown that it accounts for only 5–15%
cases of prolonged coughing. We assessed the burden of suffering related to prolonged …

Investigational approach to adenoviral conjunctivitis: comparison of three diagnostic tests using a Bayesian latent class model

R Sundaramurthy, R Dhodapkar, S Kaliaperumal… - The Journal of Infection …, 2018 - jidc.org
Introduction: Highly contagious adenoviral conjunctivitis represents 15-70% of all
conjunctivitis worldwide. Human adenovirus (hAdV) serotypes 3, 4, 7, 8, 19 and 37 …

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