Reducing Bias from Test Misclassification in Burden of Disease Studies: Use of Test to Actual Positive Ratio �? New Test Parameter

Croatian Medical Journal

Rudan, Igor¹  Campbell, Harry²  Biloglav, Zrinka³ 

[1] Croatian Center for Global Health, University of Split, Medical School, Croatia;Department of Public Health Science, University of Edinburg Medical School;Adrija Štampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb, Croatia

关键词: diagnostic (screening) test;    misclassification;    bias;    burden of disease;    test to actual positive (TAP) ratio;    accuracy;    prevalence;    ...;   

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学科分类：卫生学

来源: Medicinska Naklada Co.

【 摘 要 】

Aim To address the problem of estimating disease frequency identified by a diagnostic test, which may not represent the actual number of persons with disease in a community, but rather the number of persons who tested positive. Those two...

【 授权许可】

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