Crude estimates of diagnostic accuracy were biased due to non-random exclusion of women who did not have the opportunity for full diagnostic verification (i.e., women who screened negative and were not randomized, or, referred women who refused colposcopy and/or biopsy) [13].
After diagnostic verification, 20 patients (6%) had PA, (14.5% SP and 1.4% NSP).
We prospectively studied unselected patients by using rigorous diagnostic criteria to minimize recall, selection, and diagnostic verification bias.
Diagnostic verification and tumour subtyping and grading were performed independently by three certified pathologists (TN, NT, and MF).
The study reported here is subject to the potential problems of incomplete diagnostic verification and HIV testing.
Where findings are present, a photograph of the lesion is taken for a systematic expert diagnostic verification.
Such scenarios have been the foundation of teaching clinical reasoning: hypothesis generation, pattern recognition, formulation of context, diagnostic test interpretation, differential diagnosis as well as diagnostic verification [ 32].
As a consequence of this diagnostic verification, 197 patients did not fulfill the inclusion criteria and were excluded from the study.
As a result of this diagnostic verification, 197 patients did not fulfill the inclusion criteria and were excluded from the study.
The laboratory identifies such cases from statutory notification through local authorities, laboratories sending blood films and blood samples for diagnostic verification, and clinicians sending standardised malaria reports.
