Moving beyond sensitivity and specificity: using likelihood ratios to help interpret diagnostic tests

Title: Moving beyond sensitivity and specificity: using likelihood ratios to help interpret diagnostic tests
Creator: Attia, J.
Relation: Abnormal Laboratory Results p. 23-29
Relation: http://www.mheducation.co.uk/html/0070998426.html
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: Properties of diagnostic tests have traditionally been described using sensitivity, specificity and positive and negative predictive values. These measures, however, reflect population characteristics and do not easily translate to individual patients. Likelihood ratios are a more practical way of making sense of diagnostic test results and have immediate clinical relevance. In general, a useful test provides a high positive likelihood ratio and a small negative likelihood ratio.
Subject: diagnostic tests; likelihood ratios; clinical practice
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1061305
Identifier: uon:16932
Identifier: ISBN:9780070998421
Language: eng

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