Medicine is becoming increasingly reliant on diagnostic, prognostic and screening tests for the successful treatment of patients. With new tests being developed all the time, a more informed understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of these tests is crucial. Providing readers…
This is a book about diagnostic testing. It is aimed primarily at clinicians, particularly those who are academically minded, but it should be helpful and accessible to anyone involved with selection, development, or marketing of diagnostic, screening, or prognostic tests. Altho…
Medicine is becoming increasingly reliant on diagnostic, prognostic and screening tests for the successful treatment of patients. With new tests being developed all the time, a more informed understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of these tests is crucial. Providing readers…
Introduciton : understanding diagnosis and diagnostic testing -- Dichotomous tests -- Multilevel and continuous tests -- Critical appraisal of studies of diagnostic test accuracy -- Reliability and measurement error -- Risk predictions -- Multiple tests and multivariable decisio…
"This is a book about diagnostic testing. It is aimed primarily at clinicians, particularly those who are academically minded, but it should be helpful and accessible to anyone involved with selection, development, or marketing of diagnostic, screening, or prognostic tests. Alth…