CORDIS Project
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This project explores the historical and philosophical foundations of medical test evaluation, addressing the confusion surrounding diagnostic accuracy. It aims to clarify how differing views on patient homogeneity and heterogeneity affect the assessment of medical tests and their outcomes.
This project uses integrated history and philosophy for medicine to inform medical practice today.
The evaluation of medical tests is today in a state of confusion.
Traditionally, the main index used to evaluate diagnostic tests is diagnostic accuracy.
Typically, this is done by evaluating the sensitivity (the proportion of patients with a disease that test positive) and the specificity (the proportion of patients without a disease who test negative) of a test.
Sensitivity and specificity are co…
HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF
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