How to evaluate emerging technologies in cervical cancer screening?

Last updated on 22-8-2019 by Anonymous (not verified)

Peer reviewed scientific article

SCIENSANO

Abstract:

Excellent recommendations exist for studying therapeutic and diagnostic questions. We observe that good guidelines on assessment of evidence for screening questions are currently lacking. Guidelines for diagnostic research (STARD), involving systematic application of the reference test (gold standard) to all subjects of large study populations, are not pertinent in situations of screening for disease that is currently not yet present. A five-step framework is proposed for assessing the potential use of a biomarker as a screening tool for cervical cancer: i) correlation studies establishing …

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