Using Diagnostic Test's Results In Clinical Desicion Making Process

Number: 2 June 1, 2014
  • Figen Demir
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Using Diagnostic Test's Results In Clinical Desicion Making Process

Abstract

Diagnostic tests’ ability to detect a person having disease or exclude a person without disease, is described by terms such as sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value. Sensitivity and specificity are caharacteristics of diagnostic test but cannot be used to estimate the probability of disease in an individual patient. Positive and negative predictive values can be used to estimate the propability of disease but it is not easy to translate their results to individual patients. For this purpose combination of likelihood ratios and pre-test propability are used. Positive and negative likelihood ratios are clinically, more useful and practical way to have immediate clinical relevance than sensitivity or specificity. They allow the clinician to estimate the probability of disease for any individual patient and provide a summary of how many times more or less likely patients with a disease to have a particular result than patients without the disease. Likelihood ratios can be used together with pretest probability of disease to estimate an individual’s post-test probability of disease. Nomogram is a tool which, allows to combine the likelihood ratio of a test with a patient’s pre-test probability prevelance or clinician’s estimation of disease to estimate post-test probability

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  5. Şekil 3. Tanı testi öncesi hastalık olasılığı %80 ve LH+ 0.55 olan ve tarama
  6. sırasında test sonucu pozitif çıkan bir kişinin test sonrası hastalık olasılığı.

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Turkish

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Figen Demir

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June 1, 2014

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Year 1970 Number: 2

EndNote
Demir F (June 1, 2014) Tanı ve Tarama Test Sonuçlarının Klinik Karar Verme Sürecinde Kullanılması. Acıbadem Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi 2 91–95.