Reducing Bias from Test Misclassification in Burden of Disease Studies: Use of Test to Actual Positive Ratio �? New Test Parameter

[摘要] Aim To address the problem of estimating disease frequency identified by a diagnostic test, which may not represent the actual number of persons with disease in a community, but rather the number of persons who tested positive. Those two...

[学科分类] 卫生学

[关键词] diagnostic (screening) test;misclassification;bias;burden of disease;test to actual positive (TAP) ratio;accuracy;prevalence;...