Evaluating accuracy of diagnostic tests with intermediate results in the absence of a gold standard

H Xu, MA Black, BA Craig - Statistics in Medicine, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Statistics in Medicine, 2013Wiley Online Library
Intermediate test results often occur with diagnostic tests. When assessing diagnostic
accuracy, it is important to properly report and account for these results. In the literature,
these results are commonly discarded prior to analysis or treated as either a positive or a
negative result. Although such adjustments allow sensitivity and specificity to be computed
in the standard way, these forced decisions limit the interpretability and usefulness of the
results. Estimation of diagnostic accuracy is further complicated when tests are evaluated …
Intermediate test results often occur with diagnostic tests. When assessing diagnostic accuracy, it is important to properly report and account for these results. In the literature, these results are commonly discarded prior to analysis or treated as either a positive or a negative result. Although such adjustments allow sensitivity and specificity to be computed in the standard way, these forced decisions limit the interpretability and usefulness of the results. Estimation of diagnostic accuracy is further complicated when tests are evaluated without a gold standard. Although traditional latent class modeling can be readily applied to analyze these data and account for intermediate results, these models assume that tests are independent conditional on the true disease status, which is rarely valid in practice. We extend both the log‐linear latent class model and the probit latent class model to accommodate the conditional dependence among tests while taking the intermediate results into consideration. We illustrate our methods using a simulation study and a published medical study on the detection of epileptiform activity in the brain. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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