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Ranking of laboratory tests by consensus analysis
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Ranking of laboratory tests by consensus analysis
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Abstract
A new analytical technique (consensus analysis) was devised to assess the performance of laboratory tests that are commonly used to monitor the acute and chronic phases of inflammatory disease. On thirty-one tests carried out monthly for 7 months in seventeen patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the consensus analysis procedure ranked plasma viscosity and erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a tie for first place. Measurement of the acute-phase serum protein orosomucoid ranked third. Consensus analysis has the potential to reduce laboratory costs by identifying the most useful tests; it also promises to be helpful in the design of new laboratory tests that are more sensitive and specific.
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