RT Journal
A1 Vermeersch P, Bossuyt X
T1 COmparative analysis of different approaches to report diagnostic accuracy
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2010
FD April 26
VO 170
IS 8
SP 734
OP 735
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.84
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.84
AB 
An alternative way of expressing diagnostic accuracy is the likelihood ratio (LR).2 Likelihood ratios offer the advantage that they are not dependent on the prevalence of the disease, in contrast to positive and negative predictive values, and can be used for nondichotomous test results.3- 5 Steurer and coworkers1 found that reporting diagnostic accuracy as LRs expressed in nontechnical language is more intelligible to clinicians, although a subsequent randomized trial by the same group found no difference in posttest probability estimates between LRs in nontechnical language and sensitivity and specificity.6