PTJ
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

PHYS THER
Vol. 70, No. 7, July 1990, pp. 456-458
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when Rapid Responses are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Stratford, P.
Right arrow Articles by Wadsworth, C. T
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Stratford, P.
Right arrow Articles by Wadsworth, C. T
Related Collections
Right arrowRelated Article
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Letters and Responses

Interpreting Results of Diagnostic Tests


This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

To the Editor:

It was a joy to see diagnostic test methodology applied in the article by Amendt et al entitled, "Validity and Reliability Testing of the Scoliometer®" (Phys Ther. 1990;70:108–117). Furthermore, as diagnostic test methodology is relatively new to the physical therapy literature, I was encouraged to see that the authors elected to elaborate on four of the key terms (ie, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value) relevant to this topic. Given this methodology is relatively new to our literature, I feel it is important to highlight an additional point: the impact that prevalence has on the predictive values of a test. This relationship has relevance to the interpretation of the predictive values reported by Amendt et al, and, in order to provide an example of this relationship, I will refer to results presented in their article.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Related Article

Validity and Reliability Testing of the Scoliometer®
Larie E Amendt, Kristen L Ause-Ellias, Julie Lundahl Eybers, Carolyn T Wadsworth, David H Nielsen, and Stuart L Weinstein
Physical Therapy 1990 70: 108-117. [Abstract] [PDF]





HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1990 by the American Physical Therapy Association.