Diagnostic Tests, Routine

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Criteria' aPL tests: report of a task force and preconference workshop at the 13th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Galveston, Texas, April 2010. 
  • A Bayesian model for misclassified binary outcomes and correlated survival data with applications to breast cancer. 
  • A Test for the Rapid Detection of the Cefazolin Inoculum Effect in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • A comparison of criterion standard methods to diagnose acute heart failure. 
  • A global sensitivity analysis of performance of a medical diagnostic test when verification bias is present. 
  • A min-max combination of biomarkers to improve diagnostic accuracy. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of standard versus intensified tuberculosis diagnostics on treatment decisions by physicians in Northern Tanzania. 
  • A randomized longitudinal factorial design to assess malaria vector control and disease management interventions in rural Tanzania. 
  • A study of clinicians' responses to abnormal laboratory data as a function of diagnostic related group and test classification by College of American Pathologists criteria. 
  • A weighted generalized score statistic for comparison of predictive values of diagnostic tests. 
  • ACCF/ASE/ACEP/AHA/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2008 appropriateness criteria for stress echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 
  • Abdominal radiography in the emergency department: a prospective analysis. 
  • Accounting for nonignorable verification bias in assessment of diagnostic tests. 
  • Age-gender matched comparison of SRS instrument scores between adult deformity and normal adults: are all SRS domains disease specific? 
  • An antibody-free dual-biomarker rapid enrichment workflow (AnDREW) improves the sensitivity of malaria rapid diagnostic tests. 
  • Analysis of a diagnostic strategy for patients with suspected tumors of unknown origin. 
  • Appropriateness of expectorated sputum cultures in the hospital setting. 
  • Assessing intra, inter and total agreement with replicated readings. 
  • Average Weighted Accuracy: Pragmatic Analysis for a Rapid Diagnostics in Categorizing Acute Lung Infections (RADICAL) Study. 
  • Bayesian reclassification statistics for assessing improvements in diagnostic accuracy. 
  • Bayesian semi-parametric ROC analysis. 
  • Building evidence and measuring clinical outcomes for genomic medicine. 
  • CT presentations of adult and pediatric SARS-CoV-2 patients: A review of early COVID-19 data. 
  • Calibration of two validated SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus neutralization assays for COVID-19 vaccine evaluation. 
  • Cardiovascular Testing and Clinical Outcomes in Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain. 
  • Challenges and Opportunities for Emergency Department Sepsis Screening at Triage. 
  • Changes in Serum Calcitonin Concentrations, Incidence of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma, and Impact of Routine Calcitonin Concentration Monitoring in the EXenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering (EXSCEL). 
  • Characterization of Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase and Histidine-Rich Protein 2 Clearance Patterns via Rapid On-Bead Detection from a Single Dried Blood Spot. 
  • Clinically Adjudicated Reference Standards for Evaluation of Infectious Diseases Diagnostics. 
  • Clinicians' Adherence to Guidelines on Evaluation of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents. 
  • Coeliac disease. 
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening Quality Measures: Beyond Colonoscopy. 
  • Colorectal cancer screening in young patients with poor health and severe comorbidity. 
  • Comparison of operational characteristics for binary tests with clustered data. 
  • Connect MM Registry: The Importance of Establishing Baseline Disease Characteristics. 
  • Contralateral testicular biopsy procedure in patients with unilateral testis cancer: is it indicated? 
  • Cost implications of selective preoperative risk screening in the care of candidates for peripheral vascular operations. 
  • Cryptococcal Antigen in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid for Detecting Cryptococcal Meningitis in Adults Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies. 
  • Cryptococcosis diagnosis and treatment: What do we know now. 
  • Deep learning in radiology: An overview of the concepts and a survey of the state of the art with focus on MRI. 
  • Deimplementation of Routine Chest X-rays in Adult Intensive Care Units. 
  • Diagnosing Liver Fibrosis and Cirrhosis: Serum, Imaging, or Tissue? 
  • Diagnosis of human congenital cytomegalovirus infection by amplification of viral DNA from dried blood spots on perinatal cards. 
  • Diagnosis of placental malaria in poorly fixed and processed placental tissue. 
  • Diagnostic Approach to Health Care- and Device-Associated Central Nervous System Infections. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy and cost analysis of the Alere™ i Influenza A&B near-patient test using throat swabs. 
  • Diagnostic evaluation for patients with ischemic stroke: are there sex differences? 
  • Diagnostic tests in urology: an introduction. 
  • Differences between local hospital and core laboratory interpretation of the admission electrocardiogram in patients with acute coronary syndromes and their relation to outcome. 
  • Digital phantoms for characterizing inconsistencies among radiomics extraction toolboxes. 
  • Does improving appropriate use of malaria medicines change population beliefs in testing and treatment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Does integration of Magee equations into routine clinical practice affect whether oncologists order the Oncotype DX test? A prospective randomized trial. 
  • Does review of peripheral blood smears help in the initial workup of common anemias? 
  • Does routine serial computed tomography of the head influence management of traumatic brain injury? A prospective evaluation. 
  • Effects of sex, age, and visits on receipt of preventive healthcare services: a secondary analysis of national data. 
  • Estimating measures of diagnostic accuracy when some covariate information is missing. 
  • Evaluating medical diagnostic tests at the subunit level in the presence of verification bias. 
  • Evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) use by community health workers: a longitudinal study in western Kenya. 
  • Evidence-based guidelines are equivalent to a liberal computed tomography scan protocol for initial patient evaluation but are associated with decreased computed tomography scan use, cost, and radiation exposure. 
  • Evidence-based medicine in otolaryngology Part 4: everyday probabilities--nonbinary diagnostic tests. 
  • Evidence-based medicine in otolaryngology, Part 3: everyday probabilities: diagnostic tests with binary results. 
  • Experience and confidence in health technologies: evidence from malaria testing and treatment in Western Kenya. 
  • External Quality Assessment Program for Next-Generation Sequencing-Based HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Logistical Considerations. 
  • Fool's gold: Why imperfect reference tests are undermining the evaluation of novel diagnostics: a reevaluation of 5 diagnostic tests for leptospirosis. 
  • For patients with predicted low risk for choledocholithiasis undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy, selective intraoperative cholangiography and postoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is an effective strategy to limit unnecessary procedures. 
  • Fungal infections in HIV/AIDS. 
  • Genomic sequencing is required for identification of tuberculosis transmission in Hawaii. 
  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies. 
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance. 
  • Hospital admissions for hyperglycemic emergencies in young adults at an inner-city hospital. 
  • Household beliefs about malaria testing and treatment in Western Kenya: the role of health worker adherence to malaria test results. 
  • How affordable are tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in rural China? An analysis from community and tuberculosis patient perspectives. 
  • How to use an article about a diagnostic test. 
  • Impact of a high-deductible health plan on outpatient visits and associated diagnostic tests. 
  • Impact of an automated email notification system for results of tests pending at discharge: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
  • Impact of automated alerts on follow-up of post-discharge microbiology results: a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Indications for routine repeat head computed tomography (CT) stratified by severity of traumatic brain injury. 
  • Individual and household characteristics of persons with Plasmodium falciparum malaria in sites with varying endemicities in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
  • Interpreting and implementing the 2006 CDC recommendations for HIV testing in health-care settings. 
  • Is a third-trimester antibody screen in Rh+ women necessary? 
  • Joint model for a diagnostic test without a gold standard in the presence of a dependent terminal event. 
  • Justifying echocardiography: the role of outcomes research in evaluating a diagnostic test. 
  • Lessons learned from implementation of a computerized application for pending tests at hospital discharge. 
  • Looking for fungi in all the right places: screening for cryptococcal disease and other AIDS-related mycoses among patients with advanced HIV disease. 
  • Malaria Diagnosis by U.S. Providers on Short-term Medical Mission Trips to Uganda. 
  • Malaria surveillance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: comparison of microscopy, PCR, and rapid diagnostic test. 
  • Management of adolescents and adults with febrile illness in resource limited areas. 
  • Meta-analysis of screening and diagnostic tests. 
  • Molecular testing for indeterminate thyroid nodules: Performance of the Afirma gene expression classifier and ThyroSeq panel. 
  • Motivation and satisfaction among community health workers administering rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Western Kenya. 
  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine practice guidelines: Clinical utilization of cardiac biomarker testing in heart failure. 
  • New-onset atrial fibrillation after acute myocardial infarction and its relation to admission biomarkers (from the TRIUMPH registry). 
  • Noise versus signal: the clinical implications of an increasingly sensitive troponin assay for patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Pulmonary Infection Could Be Easily Misdiagnosed Leading to Serious Consequences. 
  • Novel Criteria for the Observe-Zone of the ESC 0/1h-hs-cTnT Algorithm. 
  • Novel diagnostic test for acute stroke. 
  • On the robustness of latent class models for diagnostic testing with no gold standard. 
  • Outcomes of a Negative Rapid Influenza Diagnostic Test in Pregnant Women. 
  • Performance of diagnostic tests to detect respiratory viruses in older adults. 
  • Pfhrp2-Deleted Plasmodium falciparum Parasites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A National Cross-sectional Survey. 
  • Physical examination tests for assessing a torn meniscus in the knee: a systematic review with meta-analysis. 
  • Pilot assessment of the sensitivity of the malaria thin film. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum HRP2 ELISA for analysis of dried blood spot samples in rural Zambia. 
  • Predictors of postdischarge outcomes from information acquired shortly after admission for acute heart failure: a report from the Placebo-Controlled Randomized Study of the Selective A1 Adenosine Receptor Antagonist Rolofylline for Patients Hospitalized With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure and Volume Overload to Assess Treatment Effect on Congestion and Renal Function (PROTECT) Study. 
  • Preoperative optimization for patients undergoing elective spine surgery. 
  • Prevalence and density-related concordance of three diagnostic tests for malaria in a region of Tanzania with hypoendemic malaria. 
  • Primary care physician attitudes concerning follow-up of abnormal test results and ambulatory decision support systems. 
  • Prognostic value of routine cardiac magnetic resonance assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction and myocardial damage: an international, multicenter study. 
  • Prologue: 2019 Annual Meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA). 
  • Provider Attitudes Toward Risk-Based Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance in Patients With Cirrhosis in the United States. 
  • Public attitudes to the storage of blood left over from routine general practice tests and its use in research. 
  • Public health costs for tuberculosis suspects in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. 
  • ROC methodology within a monitoring framework. 
  • Race as a predictor of patient preferences for biopsy result communication. 
  • Reducing Imaging Utilization in Primary Care Through Implementation of a Peer Comparison Dashboard. 
  • Reducing thrombotic complications in the perioperative setting: an update on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. 
  • Rejoinder to "On the robustness of latent class models for diagnostic testing with no gold standard". 
  • Relation of admission high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Routine laboratory results and thirty day and one-year mortality risk following hospitalization with acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Sample size calculations for evaluating a diagnostic test when the gold standard is missing at random. 
  • Sample size calculations for evaluating a diagnostic test when the gold standard is missing at random. 
  • Scheduled Intermittent Screening with Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Treatment with Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine versus Intermittent Preventive Therapy with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine for Malaria in Pregnancy in Malawi: An Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Sensitive diagnostic tools and targeted drug administration strategies are needed to eliminate schistosomiasis. 
  • Serum Lateral Flow assay with digital reader for the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: A two-centre mixed cohort study. 
  • Sexual orientation differences in HIV testing motivation among college men. 
  • Stroke code chest radiographs are not useful. 
  • Substance use among patients with a psychotic disorder in a psychiatric emergency room. 
  • Surgical management of chronic pulmonary embolism. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • Testing for von Willebrand disease in women with menorrhagia: a systematic review. 
  • Testing of low-risk patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • The Role of Mean Blood Pressure at Admission in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • The evolution of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine. 
  • The pain provocation-based straight leg raise test for diagnosis of lumbar disc herniation, lumbar radiculopathy, and/or sciatica: a systematic review of clinical utility. 
  • The smart activatable P2&3TT probe allows accurate, fast, and highly sensitive detection of Staphylococcus aureus in clinical blood culture samples. 
  • The value of regular examinations to detect glaucoma and other chronic conditions among older Americans. 
  • The weighted generalized estimating equations approach for the evaluation of medical diagnostic test at subunit level. 
  • Transient and sustained changes in operational performance, patient evaluation, and medication administration during electronic health record implementation in the emergency department. 
  • Trends in fever case management for febrile inpatients in a low malaria incidence setting of Tanzania. 
  • Trends in up-to-date status in colorectal cancer screening, North Carolina, 1998-2002. 
  • Tuberculosis patient expenditure on drugs and tests in subsidised, public services in China: a descriptive study. 
  • Use of malaria RDTs in various health contexts across sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. 
  • Use of multiple media and breast cancer screening: an introduction. 
  • Using Sex-specific Cutoffs for High-sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T to Diagnose Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Utility of postoperative laboratory studies after female pelvic reconstructive surgery. 
  • Utility of routine laboratory testing in management of chronic urticaria/angioedema. 
  • Value of routine anaerobic blood cultures for pediatric patients. 
  • West Nile virus among hospitalized, febrile patients: a case for expanding diagnostic testing. 
  • What are the diagnostic criteria for migraine-associated vertigo? 
  • When Should Complete Blood Count Tests Be Performed in Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology