This blog provides an introduction to critically appraising diagnostic studies. Find out what questions are important to ask as you go through a paper.
Here we will address the problem with cancer screening interventions regarding the potential benefits and harms of these strategies.
In this post you are going to figure out how to interpret the evaluation of diagnostic tests through sensitivity and specificity.
This blog describes what is meant by a positive predictive value and a negative predictive value, their purpose and how they can be interpreted
Thankfully, this “less is more” idea seems to be a movement gaining serious momentum in the medical world to “wind back the harms of too much medicine”.
Diagnostic tests can be big business. Angel Wong reports on one case study highlighting how deceptive such tests can be.
Pre-test probabilities can help clinicians select and interpret diagnostic tests. To see a recent, real life application check out Aaron’s review of “Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Tests for Detecting Albuminuria” from the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Kyungmin’s second prize entry to the Cochrane UK & Ireland Annual Symposium 2014 – Student Competition. A Prezi looking at the latest Cochrane evidence on prostate cancer screening.
Evidence-based medicine has a large variety of different sub-fields. Let’s begin our journey towards one of them – evidence-based physical examination.
There are over 100 diseases that the National Screening Committee in the UK considers screening for – but only a fraction of these are approved for one reason or another. This blog hopes to give an introduction to the issues with screening programmes, in particular those involved in detecting cancer.
Information for patients and members of the public in recognizing and interpreting how advertisements of screening tests can mislead them.
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