Tom Boyles

How to Request a Test: A Clinician's Guide to the Interpretation and Evaluation of Medical Tests

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides medical students and junior doctors with everything they need to know to become experts at requesting tests. It will support them in requesting the most appropriate and effective tests, and inform them on how to interpret results, improving patients' outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 160mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780192866615
• ISBN-10: 0192866613
• Artikelnr.: 65898393

Autorenporträt

Dr Tom Boyles qualified in Medicine from Oxford University in 2000 and completed Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2004. He later moved to South Africa in 2007, and gained an MD from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 2008. He worked as an HIV physician in a deeply rural area before moving to Cape Town in 2010. He completed sub-specialty training in Infectious Diseases in 2012 and has been a consultant ever since. He spent three months working on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014/5. He has now returned to rural medicine and has settled in Johannesburg.

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
2.: Determining the accuracy of a test
3.: Test accuracy, sensitivity and specificity
4.: Test accuracy as positive and negative predictive values
5.: Test accuracy as likelihood ratios
6.: Decision thresholds
7.: Frameworks for evaluating medical tests
8.: Diagnostic and prognostic research
9.: Impact studies
10.: Evaluation of novel a test
11.: Conclusions