Healio

Sensor system showed high specificity, sensitivity for thrombectomy in ischemic stroke

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A system for mechanical thrombectomy treating ischemic stroke demonstrated a high level of sensitivity and ...
Healio

Next-generation Cologuard demonstrates improved colorectal cancer sensitivity, specificity

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Next-generation Cologuard exhibited improved colorectal cancer specificity and sensitivity compared with results ...
Business Wire

Universal DX Presents Data from Large, 1,000-patient, Multi-Cohort Study Proving 91% Sensitivity for Colorectal Cancer and 54% Sensitivity for Advanced Adenoma at 92% Specificity

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Diagnostics (Universal DX), a bioinformatics and multi-omics company on a mission to transform cancer into a curable disease, today announced the results ...
Medscape

Sensitivity and Specificity: Twin Goals of Proteomics Assays

Financial support for this work was provided by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Grant Number BB/1013245/1. The author has no other relevant affiliations or ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Liquid Biopsy to Detect Early-Stage Liver Cancer Shows Higher Sensitivity, Specificity

Researchers said the blood test offers an earlier warning of hepatocellular carcinoma than current methods. Recent research highlights the increased sensitivity and specificity of a blood test to ...
STAT

What diagnostic tests can teach about spotting public fraud

Kennedy-Shaffer is a biostatistics educator and researcher at the Yale School of Public Health. There’s a thought exercise I like to do with my statistics students. Imagine a doctor who throws away ...
MedPage Today

Blood-Based Test for CRC Screening Hits Sensitivity, Specificity Endpoints

WASHINGTON -- A blood-based test for the early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) met its prespecified sensitivity and specificity endpoints, according to results from the PREEMPT CRC study. Using ...
Hospital Healthcare Europe

AI-supported mammography screening demonstrates non-inferior interval cancer rates

The use of AI in mammography screening is associated with higher sensitivity and fewer interval cancers without compromising specificity.
News Medical

Sensitivity and specificity of a “spit and mail” SARS-CoV-2 serology test

Saliva-based serology assays that measure antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) antigens are important coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) markers. Serology ...
BMJ

2.21 The test-retest reliability, sensitivity and specificity of the SCAT-3 for sideline testing

Conclusions Symptoms, the SAC and the m-BESS have poor test-retest reliability. Symptoms have reasonable sensitivity and specificity for concussion but are subjective. The 3-word SAC and m-BESS are ...
ascopubs.org

Improving the Sensitivity-Specificity Balance of Human Papillomavirus Testing on Self- and Clinician-Collected Samples in South Africa

Women living with and without HIV, age 30-65 years, were recruited in South Africa. Self-collected vaginal samples and clinician-collected cervical samples were tested with Xpert HPV, an assay that ...