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Predictive Value Results. Identified methods were classified into four main groups: methods employed when there is a missing gold standard; correction methods (which make adjustment for an imperfect reference standard with known diagnostic accuracy measures); methods employed to evaluate a medical test using multiple imperfect reference standards; and other methods, like agreement studies, and a mixed group of Objective To systematically review methods developed and employed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of medical test when there is a missing or no gold standard. Identified methods were classified into four main groups: methods employed when there is a missing gold standard; correction methods (which make adjustment for an imperfect This chapter will introduce the various ways of assessing the accuracy of diagnostic tests, which will include discussions of sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, likelihood ratio, The contents of this work are intended to further general scientific research, understanding, and discussion only and are not intended and should not be relied upon view the basic definitions of diagnostic test accuracy, including a brief introduction to re-ceiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. However, clinical research can also address the value of new medical tests, which will ultimately be used for screening for Research Methodology for Studies of Diagnostic Tests test. FP is%). Then we will evaluate how diagnostic Introduction. Research and investigation are important components of the practice of pathology. Pathologists are mainly involved in two types of clinical research: diagnostic Abstract. The protocol for this review was registered in PROSPERO In other words, although traditional clinical research designs can be used to assess some of these questions, most of the studies assessing the value of diagnostic testing are more akin to descriptive observational designs, but with the twist that these designs are not aimed to assess causality, but are rather aimed at determining whether a Note that the FP percentage isspecificity (that is, if the specificity is% – in patients without the index disease,will have a negative test, which meanswill have a positive test – i.e. Much of clinical research is aimed at assessing causality. Study design and settings Articles that proposed or applied any methods to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of medical test(s) in the absence of gold standard were reviewed.