摘要：There have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to develop clinically useful serodiagnostic tests for tuberculosis. Although the large number of published reports clearly show that antibody levels are significantly higher in patients, as a group, than in a control population, little consideration is given to the value of the tests in various operational situations. In this paper we review the criteria generally used to assess the usefulness of a diagnostic test and introduce two new concepts--namely, operational predictive accuracy and operational acceptability. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (945K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 571 572 573 574 575 576
