Using Evidence to Guide the Diagnosis of Disease

Lucas M. Bachmann; Holger J. Schünemann

doi:10.1002/9781444300857.ch6

Using Evidence to Guide the Diagnosis of Disease

Lucas M. Bachmann
, Holger J. Schünemann

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

University of Zurich

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Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: Diagnosis—its role in clinical care Scientific diagnosis Grading the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic recommendations Arriving at a recommendation for diagnostic tests and strategies Conclusions References.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evidence-Based Hematology
Publisher	wiley
Pages	37-45
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781444300857
ISBN (Print)	9781405157476
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444300857.ch6
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

Keywords

Bivariate random-effects meta-analysis
GRADE four categories of quality of evidence of system
Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
Littenberg-Moses summary ROC curve
Meta-analytic methods
Separate random-effects meta-analysis of sensitivity and specificity
Systematic reviews of test evaluation studies
Test accuracy - surrogate for patient-important outcomes
Using evidence to guide diagnosis

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