Diagnostic Efficiency

Studies of Diagnostic Efficiency

Lumbar punctures: use and diagnostic efficiency in emergency medical departments

BACKGROUND Lumbar punctures (LP) are regularly and effortlessly used in the emergency medical departments (EMD). LP use and efficiency have not been fully explored in the published literature. AIMS The goal of this study was to assess in a French EMD, the frequency of use and the diagnostic efficiency of LP, the final diagnoses, and related medical practices. METHODS We retrospectively stud...

Improving Diagnostic Accuracy and Efficiency of Suspected Bone Stress Injuries

CONTEXT Lower extremity stress fractures among athletes and military recruits cause significant morbidity, fiscal costs, and time lost from sport or training. During fiscal years (FY) 2012 to 2014, 1218 US Air Force trainees at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, were diagnosed with stress fracture(s). Diagnosis relied heavily on bone scans, often very early in clinical course and often in ...

DNA methylation biomarkers offer improved diagnostic efficiency in lung cancer.

The exceptional high mortality of lung cancer can be instigated to a high degree by late diagnosis. Despite the plethora of studies on potential molecular biomarkers for lung cancer diagnosis, very few have reached clinical implementation. In this study, we developed a panel of DNA methylation biomarkers and validated their diagnostic efficiency in bronchial washings from a large retrospective ...

The biomarker paradigm: between diagnostic efficiency and clinical efficacy.

The interest in biomarker research has been growing exponentially, and this trend is not expected to reverse soon. Although the clinical usefulness of laboratory tests is conventionally defined in terms of diagnostic efficiency or clinical efficacy (or effectiveness), these notions are complementary but not interchangeable. The former concept is an expression of diagnostic accuracy but does not...