Variation in sensitivity and specificity by demographic factors was also evaluated.
This four-item delayed and cued recall test can be quickly administered and performance is not significantly affected by demographic factors, but its sensitivity and specificity are inferior to, for example, Mini-Cog [ 13].
The improvement in specificity of visual scores by demographic indexing was significant (6% versus 86%, p < 0.0001).
For example, Eke et al. [ 44] reported good sensitivity and specificity of the combination of demographic measures and responses effects using 5 self-reported questions for predicting periodontitis.
The a priori research hypothesis was that the sensitivity and specificity values would not vary by demographic subgroups.
The demographic data, the patient's ground and medical specificities have been notified as well as the various organ failures, biological results, drugs etiology through the Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method score.
Finally, the prevalence of latent infection differs across studies, depending upon demographic parameters; this may also affect the sensitivity and specificity of the two tests.
The data extracted from each study included the following details: first author, publication year, country of origin, clinical setting, patient demographics, sample size, analytical method, cutoff value, sensitivity, and specificity.
Alternatively, the cases were designed to cover a range of patient demographics and presentations and it may be that content specificity at all levels of expertise was responsible for some of the difficulty in discriminating between subject-groups.
