[Challenge of evidence-based medicine: sense and non-sense of diagnostic tests in gynecology]

Zentralbl Gynakol. 2001 Mar;123(3):127-31. doi: 10.1055/s-2001-12508.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Evidence-based medicine is the synthesis of internal evidence (experience) and best external evidence (literature) aiming to solve a particular clinical problem. This paper gives an overview on different tools to appraise rationales and results of diagnostic tests such as CA-125 monitoring in patients with ovarian cancer.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood*
  • CA-125 Antigen / blood*
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Evidence-Based Medicine / methods*
  • Female
  • Germany
  • Gynecology / economics
  • Gynecology / standards*
  • Humans
  • Mass Screening / economics
  • Mass Screening / methods
  • Mass Screening / standards*
  • Odds Ratio
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / economics
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / immunology
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • CA-125 Antigen