… this diagnosis. The chest X-ray (CXR) is still recommended to be the first imaging step for
diagnosing pneumonia, … Although thoracic CT scan is a diagnostic tool with high sensitivity and …

… We undertook a bivariate meta-analysis to assess the overall accuracy of respiratory
specimen PCR assays for diagnosing Pneumocystis pneumonia. The summary sensitivity and …

… this study was to assess the accuracy of bedside lung ultrasonography for diagnosing
pneumonia in … were explored using predefined subgroup analyses and bivariate meta-regression. …

… had relevant clinical and radiological manifestations with detection of the pathogen in lower
… summary, this meta-analysis shows a very high accuracy of PCR in BALF for the diagnosis …

… pneumonia with acute respiratory failure. To evaluate the overall accuracy … diagnosing
PCP between HIV and non-HIV patients, we performed this meta-analysis with bivariate …

… We performed bivariate meta-analysis where there were two or more studies of a test using
the same or similar cutoff to define a positive test, using the mada package (version 0.5.8) to …

… 900 pg/ml) in diagnosis of pneumonia, which implied that BALF sTREM-1 could be more
accurate in diagnosing lung infections. Herein, we performed a meta-analysis of eligible clinical …

… analysis The primary aim of our meta-analysis was to estimate the accuracy of diagnostic …
Within the context of a bivariate regression approach, we estimated the pooled sensitivity and …

… Using a bivariate regression approach, we have now … BALF-PCR as a diagnostic test for IA
in immunocompromised patients. … diagnosis “toolbox”, such as for Pneumocystis pneumonia …

… tests were assessed in four or more studies, calculated pooled estimates with use of
bivariate model and hierarchical summary receiver operation characteristics plots for meta-analysis. …