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Part of the Michigan State University's online Evidence-Based Medicine course.
An on-line textbook by Thomas G. Tape, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center.
A presentation by Atle Klovning of the University of Bergen in Norway.
Reports on quality standards that should be met by reports of diagnostic procedures, from Bandolier.
The Cochrane Collaboration's Screening and Diagnostic Tests Methods Group has an email list to serve the members of the group.
Analyse-it Clinical Laboratory method evaluation tools. These tools can be used evaluating a method or instrument's analytical accuracy and imprecision and it's diagnostic performance. A free demo version is available for downloading
A software for the statistical analysis of diagnostic test or rating scale performance. Click on Download for a demo version.
| Sensitivity and Specificity |
Practical examples using sensitivity, specificity, gold (reference) standard, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value. From the Medical University of South Carolina's Introduction to Clinical Reasoning.
From the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM). Includes an interactive calculator for working out Sensitivity and Specificity (using Shockwave Player).
From the University of Iowa's Laboratory Handbook.
| Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Curves |
From the University of Nebraska's on-line textbook.
A question for Professor Mean.  Back to Top ^
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