There is great geographical variation in the distribution of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC),
with the majority of all cases worldwide found in the Asia–Pacific region, where HCC is one …

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is a tool used to describe the
discrimination accuracy of a diagnostic test or prediction model. While sensitivity and …

Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies differs from the usual meta-analysis of
therapeutic/interventional studies in that, it is required to simultaneously analyze a pair of …

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related
Infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America | Clinical Infectious …

ABSTRACT HOPKINS, WG, SW MARSHALL, AM BATTERHAM, and J. HANIN. Progressive
Statistics for Studies in Sports Medicine and Exercise Science. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol …

Background Cell‐free fetal DNA (cff DNA) non‐invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is rapidly
expanding, and is being introduced at varying rates depending on country and condition …

Background Proximal femoral fractures are an important clinical and public health issue
associated with substantial morbidity and early mortality. Artificial intelligence might offer …

It has been suggested that the quality of clinical trials should be assessed by blinded raters
to limit the risk of introducing bias into meta-analyses and systematic reviews, and into the …

Abstract Introduction The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL)
convened an international working party on the management of hepatocellular carcinoma …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Studies of diagnostic accuracy most often report pairs
of sensitivity and specificity. We demonstrate the advantage of using bivariate meta …