When developing diagnostic tests or evaluating results, it is important to understand how reliable those tests and therefore the results you are obtaining are. By using samples of known disease status ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of simple definitions of BMI to successfully screen for children with high body fatness. DESIGN: We determined the sensitivity and specificity of the body mass index ...

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...

Next-generation Cologuard exhibited improved colorectal cancer specificity and sensitivity compared with results of the FDA registrational trial that led to approval of the noninvasive screening test, ...