Reevaluating the true diagnostic accuracy of dipstick tests to diagnose urinary tract infection using Bayesian latent class analysis

OBJECTIVE: Previous studies on diagnostic accuracy of dipstick testing for leukocyte esterase (LE) and nitrite to diagnose urinary tract infection (UTI) had used urine culture, which is an imperfect gold standard. Estimates of diagnostic accuracy obtained using the classical gold standard framework...

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Autores principales: Bafna, Prashant, Deepanjali, Surendran, Mandal, Jharna, Balamurugan, Nathan, Swaminathan, Rathinam P., Kadhiravan, Tamilarasu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33382863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244870

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33382863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244870

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