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ArticleJournal of cardiothoracic surgery2020

Comment on "The diagnostic value of D-dimer with simplified Geneva score (SGS) pre-test in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE)".

Siamak Sabour

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Article in Journal of cardiothoracic surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Siamak SabourDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Health and Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Daneshjoo Blvd, Tehran, IR, PC: 198353-5511, Iran. s.sabour@sbmu.ac.ir.ORCID 0000-0002-1928-992X
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Any decision in clinical practice needs to evaluate both reliability (precision) and validity (accuracy) of a diagnostic test. Without knowledge about the reliability, any judgment would be wrong. In diagnostic accuracy research, it is essential to evaluate the diagnostic added value of a test, since a diagnostic accuracy of a single test might be excellent, however for clinical purposes it can be worthless. Like evaluating discrimination, it would be possible to estimate the diagnostic added value by applying ROC of diagnostic model with and without test results in the model.

Indexed as

Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation ProductsPulmonary EmbolismHumansReproducibility of ResultsFibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Productsfibrin fragment D

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PMID32912252
PMCPMC7488250
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