• Glossary of common biostatistical and epidemiological terms
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  • Predictive values
  • Definitions of sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV (Tables)
  • Prevalence on PPV and NPV (Figures)
• Evidence-based approach to prevention
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  • Low positive predictive value
  • Summary
• Evaluating diagnostic tests
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  • Disease prevalence
  • What is the balance between cost of the disease and cost of the test?
  • Summary and recommendations
• Anaphylaxis: Acute diagnosis
  • Diagnostic criteria
  • Summary and recommendations
• Previously undiagnosed myocardial infarction
  • Difficulties with ECG diagnosis
  • Summary and recommendations
• Penicillin skin testing
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  • Positive predictive value
  • Summary and recommendations
• Screening for prostate cancer
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  • Test performance > Positive predictive value
  • Test performance > Positive predictive value
  • Summary and recommendations
• Disorders of arousal from non-rapid eye movement sleep in adults
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  • Summary and recommendations
• Weaning from mechanical ventilation: The rapid shallow breathing index
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  • Accuracy
  • Summary and recommendations
• Hypersensitivity reactions to macrolides, aminoglycosides, tetracyclines, clindamycin, and metronidazole
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  • Role of skin testing
  • Summary and recommendations
• Screening tests in children and adolescents
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  • Types of screening
  • Test characteristics
  • Summary and recommendations
• Hypersensitivity reactions to fluoroquinolones
  • Immediate-type skin testing
  • Summary and recommendations
• Overview of management of mechanical small bowel obstruction in adults
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  • Laboratory studies
  • Summary and recommendations
• Prenatal screening for common aneuploidies using cell-free DNA
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  • Trisomy 21, 18, and 13
  • Screening for microdeletion/duplication syndromes
  • Summary and recommendations
• Fluorescence bronchoscopy
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  • Positive predictive value
  • Summary and recommendations
• Primary failure of the hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula
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  • Accessory veins
  • Summary and recommendations
• Retained surgical sponge (gossypiboma) and other retained surgical items: Prevention and management
  • Count discrepancies
  • Summary and recommendations
• Traumatic gastrointestinal injury in the adult patient
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  • Trauma evaluation
  • Summary and recommendations
• Predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis
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  • Clinical judgment
  • Serum creatinine
  • Summary and recommendations
• Origin and utility of measurement of rheumatoid factors
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  • Predictive and diagnostic value
  • Summary and recommendations
• Clinical spectrum of antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies
  • Is a positive test result a "true positive"?
  • Enzyme-linked immunoassays
  • Summary and recommendations
• Calculator: Post Test Probability from Pre Test Probability, Sensitivity and Specificity
• Fetal growth restriction: Diagnosis
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  • Ponderal index
  • Umbilical artery
  • Summary and recommendations
• Evaluation of hibernating myocardium
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  • Pooled analysis of rMPI and DE studies
  • Summary and recommendations
• Screening for ovarian cancer
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  • Screening tests
  • CA 125
  • Summary and recommendations
• Diagnostic evaluation of food allergy
  • Immunoassays
  • Summary
• Diagnosis of classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency
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  • Mass spectrometry
  • Interpretation of results
  • Summary
• Clinical monitoring and surveillance of the mature hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula
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  • Static dialysis venous pressure
  • Intra-access flow rate
  • Summary and recommendations
• Endoscopic methods for the diagnosis of pancreatobiliary neoplasms
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  • Endoscopic ultrasound and intraductal probes
  • Brush cytology
  • Summary and recommendations
• T wave (repolarization) alternans: Clinical aspects
  • Accuracy of TWA testing
  • LV systolic dysfunction and/or heart failure
  • Summary and recommendations
• Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction
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  • Natriuretic peptide levels
  • Summary and recommendations
• Peanut, tree nut, and seed allergy: Diagnosis
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  • Diagnostic pitfalls
  • Diagnosis of IgE-mediated reactions
  • Summary
• Computed tomographic and positron emission tomographic scanning of pulmonary nodules
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  • PET/CT
  • Test characteristics
  • Summary and recommendations
• Abacavir hypersensitivity reaction
  • Future research
  • PREDICT-1 trial
  • Summary and recommendations
• Clinical features and diagnosis of primary hepatocellular carcinoma
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  • Alpha-fetoprotein
  • Ultrasound
  • Summary and recommendations
• Diagnosis of celiac disease in adults
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  • Individuals with a low risk for celiac disease
  • Antigliadin antibody assays
  • Summary and recommendations
• Management of severe or refractory ulcerative colitis in children and adolescents
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  • Indications
  • Summary and recommendations
• Assessment of myocardial viability by nuclear imaging in coronary heart disease
  • Comparison with non-nuclear techniques
  • Summary and recommendations
• Use of the signal-averaged electrocardiogram in ischemic heart disease
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  • Combination with other risk factors
  • Summary and recommendations
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
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  • General considerations
  • Removal of CSF
  • Summary and recommendations
• Allergy testing in eosinophilic esophagitis
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  • Food allergy testing in EoE
  • Summary and recommendations
• Monitoring and surveillance of hemodialysis arteriovenous grafts to prevent thrombosis
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  • Rationale for monitoring and surveillance of arteriovenous grafts
  • Clinical monitoring
  • Summary and recommendations
• Early pregnancy prediction of preeclampsia
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  • Risk prediction models
  • Evaluation of risk factors to identify women at high risk
  • Summary and recommendations
• Tests of respiratory muscle strength
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  • Accuracy
  • Summary and recommendations
• Screening for bladder cancer
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  • Screening modalities
  • Harms of screening
  • Summary and recommendations
• Overview of JC polyomavirus, BK polyomavirus, and other polyomavirus infections
  • Urine cytology
  • Other
  • Summary
• Rising serum PSA following local therapy for prostate cancer: Diagnostic evaluation
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  • PET
  • Irradiated patients
  • Summary and recommendations
• Evaluation of the HIV-infected patient with odynophagia and dysphagia
  • History and physical examination
  • Summary and recommendations
• Weaning from mechanical ventilation: Readiness testing
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  • Oxygenation
  • Summary and recommendations
• Diagnosis of intravascular catheter-related infections
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  • Specimen collection
  • Summary

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