TY  - JOUR
T1  - COmparative analysis of different approaches to report diagnostic accuracy
AU  - Vermeersch P, Bossuyt X
Y1  - 2010/04/26
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.84
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 734
EP  - 735
VL  - 170
IS  - 8
N2  - 
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

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.84
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.84
ER  -