… methods to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of medical test(s) in the absence of gold standard
… more groups (eg diseased, intermediate and non-diseased). This is a gap identified in the …

… repeating RT-PCR testing in patients with a sustained intermediate or high clinical … of
evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of a test in the absence of a reliable reference standard is not …

… An evaluation of 126 reports of diagnostic test accuracy studies … is used for establishing the
presence or absence of the target … minute pathological changes to advanced clinical disease. …

… , and handling of intermediate or uninterpretable results [16]. … to evaluate the diagnostic
performance of tests frequently … in feline sera in the absence of a gold standard. For the first time, …

… SCID: The SCID [15] serves as the gold standard to determine the presence or absence
of a current major depressive episode (MDE). In this study, SCID was aministered to all the …

… Liver biopsy, the current gold standard to assess the liver … NAFLD patients showed poor
inter-test reliability. Serum CK18 … less than −1.45 predicts the absence of advanced fibrosis …

… Lack of a gold standard can present a challenge for evaluation of diagnostic test accuracy of
… negative percent agreement requires classifying intermediate categories as being positive …

… be part of the gold standard for diagnostic evaluation. Good … domain ranges from a near
absence of interest in interacting … Overall, our results indicate that the inter-rater agreement in …

… in southern Benin and evaluated by clinical diagnosis, direct … In the absence of a gold
standard, the final diagnosis in each … patients with an intermediate score are assessed by PCR. …

… systematic review, we sought to comprehensively evaluate the … , liver biopsy was not the
gold standard, transplanted livers … or absence of obesity also did not influence the diagnostic …