Implications of the impact of prevalence on test thresholds and outcomes: lessons from tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: With today’s rapid advances in technology and understanding of disease, more screening and diagnostic tests have become available in a variety of sociodemographic and clinical settings. This analysis quantifies the impact of varying prevalence rates on test performance for given sensitiv...

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Autores principales: Bentley, Tanya GK, Catanzaro, Antonino, Ganiats, Theodore G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-563

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-563

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