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SUBMITTER: Chen Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4401477 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Yong Y Liu Yulun Y Ning Jing J Cormier Janice J Chu Haitao H
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics 20150401 3
Systematic reviews of diagnostic tests often involve a mixture of case-control and cohort studies. The standard methods for evaluating diagnostic accuracy only focus on sensitivity and specificity and ignore the information on disease prevalence contained in cohort studies. Consequently, such methods cannot provide estimates of measures related to disease prevalence, such as population averaged or overall positive and negative predictive values, which reflect the clinical utility of a diagnostic ...[more]