Understanding Diagnostic Measurements

  • Course Price: $150 USD
  • Course Run Time: 47 minutes
  • Course Level: Level 3 - Advanced
  • Completion Period: 2 week

Understanding Diagnostic Measurements surveys the measurements used to assess a diagnostic’s accuracy because a test must achieve a certain level of accuracy before receiving regulatory approval. Understand how these measurements determine false negative and false positive percentages. Learn the meaning of variability, sensitivity, and specificity and calculate each. This course is for those new to diagnostic development who need a primer on the necessary measures to achieve regulatory approval.

Suggested Prerequisites

Diagnostic Approval and Reimbursement
How Diagnostic Work: DNA-Based Diagnostics
How Diagnostic Work: Protein-Based Diagnostics

Takeaways
  1. Produce and interpret a standard curve to analyze a diagnostic’s results.
  2. Recognize types of data distributions and how each is used to determine if a patient's condition falls in the normal or abnormal range.
  3. Choose the correct measurement to determine the disease state of a patient.
  4. Explain how precision, bias, specificity, and sensitivity measurements determine the accuracy of a diagnostic.
  5. Discuss how false positive and false negative percentages and their comparison to the gold standard determines regulatory approval for a novel diagnostic.
Certificate Requirements
  • View the entire course
  • Pass course exam with a 70 percent
Download Agenda
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Trailer
Introduction to Measurements
Introduces the concept of measurements and discusses the process of producing, using and interpreting a standard curve when attempting to determine th...More
Variability of Measurements
Explains how a diagnostic's variability measurements determine if a patient falls into a normal or abnormal distribution for a disease.
Accuracy of Measurements
Shows how the analysis of various bi-modal distributions determine if patients fall within the normal or abnormal range for a disease and how to ident...More
Understanding Diagnostic Measurements: Quiz
Certificate Requirements
  • View the entire course
  • Pass course exam with a 70 percent