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ReviewBiochemia medica2025

Diagnostic tests performance indices: an overview.

Farrokh Habibzadeh

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Review in Biochemia medica, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 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

1 author.

Farrokh HabibzadehIndependent Research Consultant, Shiraz, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diagnostic tests are important means in clinical practice. To assess the performance of a diagnostic test, we commonly need to compare its results to those obtained from a gold standard test. The test sensitivity is the probability of having a positive test in a diseased-patient; the specificity, a negative test result in a disease-free person. However, none of these indices are useful for clinicians who are looking for the inverse probabilities,

Indexed as

Diagnostic Tests, RoutineHumansPredictive Value of TestsSensitivity and SpecificityBayes theoremdiagnostic testslikelihood functionspredictive value of testssensitivityspecificity

Identifiers

PMID39974192
PMCPMC11838712

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