Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
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Subject Areas on Research
- A systematic review of studies concerning observer agreement during medical specialist diagnosis using videoconferencing.
- An approach to improve LOINC mapping through augmentation of local test names.
- Assessing individual agreement.
- Assessing observer agreement in studies involving replicated binary observations.
- Biosensors and biochips: advances in biological and medical diagnostics.
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews.
- Chapter 5: assessing risk of bias as a domain of quality in medical test studies.
- Chapter 6: assessing applicability of medical test studies in systematic reviews.
- Chapter 7: grading a body of evidence on diagnostic tests.
- Clinical tests for screening and diagnosis of cervical spine myelopathy: a systematic review.
- Comparison of concordance correlation coefficient and coefficient of individual agreement in assessing agreement.
- Comparison of diagnostic markers with repeated measurements: a non-parametric ROC curve approach.
- Comparison of noninvasive markers of fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
- Considerations of net present value in policy making regarding diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.
- Design and implementation of an automated email notification system for results of tests pending at discharge.
- Design and rationale of the Utah obesity study. A study to assess morbidity following gastric bypass surgery.
- Development of a test of physical performance for the nursing home setting.
- Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests and signs of temporomandibular joint disorders: a systematic review of the literature.
- Diagnostic accuracy of tests and measures for shoulder labral dysfunction.
- Diagnostic tools for monitoring kidney transplant recipients.
- Differences between univariate and bivariate models for summarizing diagnostic accuracy may not be large.
- Do You Want to Hear the Bad News? The Value of Diagnostic Tests for Alzheimer's Disease.
- Does payment drive procedures? Payment for specialty services and procedure rate variations in 3 HMOs.
- Does this adult patient have a blunt intra-abdominal injury?
- Methods guide for authors of systematic reviews of medical tests: a collaboration between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
- On uncertainty in medical testing.
- Operationalizing diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease and other age-related cognitive impairment-Part 1.
- Patient-based outcome assessment instruments in acupuncture research.
- Practical implementation of the guidelines for unstable angina/non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the emergency department: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology (Subcommittee on Acute Cardiac Care), Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, and Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group, in Collaboration With the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
- Production and validation of durable, high quality standardized malaria microscopy slides for teaching, testing and quality assurance during an era of declining diagnostic proficiency.
- Relationship between use of electronic health record features and health care quality: results of a statewide survey.
- The development of a mental status vital sign for use across the spectrum of care.
- Time-dependent classification accuracy curve under marker-dependent sampling.
- Veterans Administration Acute Stroke (VASt) Study: lack of race/ethnic-based differences in utilization of stroke-related procedures or services.