Connect Sign InThis lecture covers performance evaluation of diagnostic tests. Traditional performance measures such as sensitivity, specificity, and ROC curves are reviewed. Reasons for differences in diagnostic studies are examined including real differences, threshold effects, sources of bias, and random variation. Shortcomings of the traditional approaches to test evaluation are also discussed and alternative approaches such as diagnostic research (vs test research), clinical trial evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation are presented.
Presented by
Robert Schmidt, MD, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor of Pathology, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah
Director, Center for Effective Medical Testing, Department of Pathology, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah
Medical Director, Huntsman Cancer Hospital Clinical Laboratory
Director, Quality Optimization, ARUP Laboratories
