Detection and Diagnostic Overall Accuracy Measures of Medical Tests.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overall accuracy measures of medical tests are often used with unclear interpretations.

Objectives

To develop methods of calculating the overall accuracy of medical tests in the patient population.

Methods

Algebraic equations based on Bayes' theorem.

Results

A new approach is proposed for calculating overall accuracy in the patient population. Examples and applications using published data are presented.

Conclusions

The overall accuracy is the proportion of the correct test results. We introduce a clear distinction between the overall accuracy measures of medical tests that are aimed at the detection of a disease in a screening of populations for public health purposes in the general population and the overall accuracy measures of tests aimed

SUBMITTER: Grunau G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186004 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature