Any patient, who is undergoing a surgical or invasive procedure, requiring anesthesia or sedation, needs a preoperative evaluation. This is essential in any type of surgical procedure. Most of the times, clinical evaluation ...

The properties of a diagnostic test such as sensitivity, specificity and predictive values (positive and negative) are well known. Likelihood ratios are an alternative for summarising diagnostic accuracy, yet providing a ...

The properties of a diagnostic test such as sensitivity, specificity and predictive values (positive and negative) are well known. Likelihood ratios are an alternative for summarising diagnostic accuracy, yet providing a ...

Point-of-care diagnostic tests (POCTs) can enable health-care workers to provide more rapid and effective care to people in low-resource settings.1 POCTs should ideally meet the WHO's ASSURED criteria2—ie, being affordable, ...

BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are today the most widely used method for malaria diagnosis and are recommended, alongside microscopy, for the confirmation of suspected cases before the administration of anti-malarial ...

Aims: To present a new approach for estimating the "true prevalence" of malaria and apply it to datasets from Peru, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Methods: Bayesian models were developed for estimating both the malaria prevalence ...

The global prevalence of malaria has decreased over the past fifteen years, but similar gains have not been realized against Plasmodium vivax because this species is less responsive to conventional malaria control interventions ...