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…