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October 10, 2018

Screening for Atrial Fibrillation during Automatic Blood Pressure Measurements

Author(s)3: Andrew Lowe, Timothy H. Oh, Ralph Stewart

Screening for Atrial Fibrillation during Automatic Blood Pressure Measurements https://www.embs.org/jtehm/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2018/10/Screening-for-Atrial-Fibrillation-during-Automatic-Blood-Pressure-Measurements.jpg 780 433 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM) IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM) //www.embs.org/jtehm/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2022/06/ieee-jtehm-logo2x.png October 10, 2018 March 4, 2022

Atrial fibrillation (Afib) contributes significantly to overall cardiovascular risk. Widespread screening for Afib in primary care is sometimes performed by palpation, but suffers from low accuracy and is dependent on…

June 14, 2016

More Than Just Accuracy: A Novel Method to Incorporate Multiple Test Attributes in Evaluating Diagnostic Tests Including Point of Care Tests

Author(s)3: Matthew Thompson, Bernhard Weigl, Annette Fitzpatrick, Nicole Ide

More Than Just Accuracy: A Novel Method to Incorporate Multiple Test Attributes in Evaluating Diagnostic Tests Including Point of Care Tests https://www.embs.org/jtehm/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/06/more-than-just-accuracy.jpg 780 435 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM) IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM) //www.embs.org/jtehm/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2022/06/ieee-jtehm-logo2x.png June 14, 2016 March 4, 2022

Current frameworks for evaluating diagnostic tests are constrained by a focus on diagnostic accuracy, and assume that all aspects of the testing process and test attributes are discrete and equally…