Pulse oximetry (PO) can be used as a technique to assess vascularization. Although it is commonly in the field of medicine, still has limited use dentistry. The aim this study evaluate, by means systematic review, if pulse viable and effective system determine pulp vitality clinical criteria for its use. A literature search was performed Medline, Scopus, Embase, Web Science databases. Clinical ...

(1) Background and Objectives: Responding to the need for more optimized biomarkers prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis, a high number of studies have shown that microRNAs (miRNAs) could serve as novel, reliable diagnostic tools. The usefulness these miRNAs in assessing presence PCa is still under debate, given discrepancies their performances. In this respect, hsa-miR-141 among particular interest...

Epidemiological studies have explored the diagnostic effect of urine BLCA-4 in bladder cancer. However, the results remain controversial. Therefore, we conducted this pooled analyses to determine the overall accuracy of urine BLCA-4 in bladder cancer. A comprehensive electronic and hand search was conducted for related literatures though several databases. QUADAS-2 was used to assess the qualit...

Research on ASD in infancy has provided a rationale for developing screening instruments for children from the first year of life to age of 18 months. A comprehensive literature search identified candidate screening tools. Using methodological probe questions adapted from the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS), two Level 1 and three Level 2 screening instruments were rev...

OBJECTIVE The diagnosis of ADHD is based on behavioral criteria, which allow for subjective variability and invite criticism regarding the reality of the disorder. In this situation, more objective criteria would be desirable. We review the scientific literature for diagnostic tests based on event-related potentials (ERPs). METHOD Seven studies met the inclusion criteria of reporting the sens...

Studies examining the diagnostic value of microRNA-210 for lung cancer have yielded inconsistent results. Here, we performed a meta-analysis to assess the diagnostic accuracy of microRNA-210 for lung cancer. Nine eligible studies involving 993 patients (554 lung cancer patients and 439 non-cancer patients) were independently identified, and the quality of these studies was assessed according to...

The current text provides a brief overview and a methodological appraisal of the systematic review and metaanalysis conducted by Samad and colleagues (2012) who assessed the clinical utility and diagnostic accuracy of CTA for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in low to intermediate risk patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain of suspected cardiac ...

ESAT-6 is one of the most studied antigens in vaccine, diagnosis, and pathogenic mechanism of tuberculosis. In the present study, a meta-analysis was performed regarding the use of ESAT-6 based antibody detection test for diagnosing nonhuman primate (NHP) tuberculosis. Studies in English and Chinese were searched and selected strictly. Quality of included studies was assessed using the standard...

Nghiên cứu này thực hiện với mục tiêu tổng hợp và đánh giá về hiệu quả của thiết bị phân tích độ rung khớp (JVA) trong chẩn đoán các rối loạn thái dương hàm (RLTDH). Chiến lược tìm kiếm trên 3 trang điện tử Pubmed, Cochrane, ScienceDirect (đến tháng 8/2021) tài liệu đáp ứng chuẩn sau: (1) JVA bệnh nhân RLTDH, (2) MRI hoặc Arthrography là tham chiếu, (3) báo cáo đủ dữ đoán. Đánh chất lượng nghiê...

BACKGROUND Poor methodological quality and reporting are known concerns with diagnostic accuracy studies. In 2003, the QUADAS tool and the STARD standards were published for evaluating the quality and improving the reporting of diagnostic studies, respectively. However, it is unclear whether these tools have been applied to diagnostic studies of infectious diseases. We performed a systematic re...