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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

Likelihood Ratio Approach and Clinical Interpretation of Laboratory Tests.

Walter Fierz, Xavier Bossuyt

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Walter FierzSchweizerischer Verband der Diagnostikindustrie (SVDI), Bern, Switzerland.
Xavier BossuytClinical and Diagnostic Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU, Leuven, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Area Under CurveClinical Laboratory TechniquesDiagnostic Tests, RoutineHumansROC Curveclinical interpretationharmonizationlaboratory testslikelihood ratioquality control

Identifiers

PMID33936083
PMCPMC8086426

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