glas {bamdit}

Tumor markers in the diagnosis of primary bladder cancer.

Description

Outcome of individual studies evaluating urine markers

Format

A matrix with 46 rows and 7 columns. Each row represents study results, the columns are:

tp

number of true positives.

n1

number of patients with disease.

fp

number of false positives.

n2

number of patients without disease.

author

first author of the study.

cutoff

cutoff in U/ml.

marker

test method used in the study.

Source

The data were obtained from

Glas AS, Roos D, Deutekom M, Zwindermann AH, Bossuyt PM, Kurth KH. (2003) Tumor markers in the diagnosis of primary bladder cancer. A systematic review. Journal of Urology; 169:1975-82.

References

Verde P. E. (2010). Meta-analysis of diagnostic test data: A bivariate Bayesian modeling approach. Statistics in Medicine. 29, 3088-3102.