RT Book, Section
A1 Letelier, Luz Maria
A1 Capurro, Daniel
A1 Cerda, Jaime
A1 Aguila, Lorena Cifuentes
A1 Claro, Juan Carlos
A1 Rada, Gabriel
A1 Mercado, Solange Rivera
A1 Montori, Victor M.
A2 Guyatt, Gordon
A2 Rennie, Drummond
A2 Meade, Maureen O.
A2 Cook, Deborah J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1183877365
T1 Examples of Likelihood Ratios
T2 Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3rd ed
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179071-0
LK jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1183877365
RD 2024/09/13
AB Other  chapters  of  this  book  have  made  the  case  for  the  usefulness  of  likelihood  ratios  (LRs)  in  the  process  of  diagnosis  (see  Chapter  16,  The  Process  of  Diagnosis,  and  Chapter  18,  Diagnostic  Tests).  In  this  chapter,  we  present  some  examples  of  LRs,  along  with  their  associated  95%  confidence  intervals  (CIs),  for  many  diagnostic  tests.  For  each  test,  we  describe  the  population  to  whom  the  test  was  applied  and  the  range  of  prevalence  (pretest  probability)  found  for  each  target  condition  (disease).  Our  choice  of  conditions  has  been  idiosyncratic  and  represents  the  interests  of  the  authors.  We  restricted  ourselves  to  tests  in  current  use  and  so  do  not  offer  a  technical  description  of  the  tests.  The  authors  conducted  all  searches  and  summaries,  without  duplicate  adjudication  of  eligibility  or  data  extraction.