Diagnostics

New diagnostics study findings recently were published by R. Atiqi and co-researchers

Published in Drug Week, May 15th, 2009

"Clinical research is impossible without accurate diagnostic tests. I-lie methods for assessing accuracy of quantitative diagnostic tests are not routinely used by the Scientific community," scientists writing in the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics report.

"To review the advantages and disadvantages of methods that could be used for that purpose. Using real data examples we review seven possible methods. Simple linear regression testing the presence of a significant correlation between the new test data (x-axis data) and the control test data (y-axis data) is not accurate for testing the validity of a novel quantitative diagnostic...

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Source: Drug Week (2009-05-15)

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