Diagnostic Accuracy of 5 Dental Pulp Tests | 合法醫療器材資訊網

由AMainkar著作·2018·被引用41次—EPTshowedhighaccuracywhentestingvitalteeth(specificity=0.93)butlowaccuracywhenassessingnonvitalteeth(sensitivity=0.72).

Introduction: The aim of this systematic review was to investigate and compare the diagnostic accuracy including sensitivity, specificity, adjusted accuracy, adjusted positive predictive value (PPV), and adjusted negative predictive value (NPV) of cold pulp testing (CPT), heat pulp testing (HPT), electric pulp testing (EPT), laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF), and pulse oximetry (PO).

Methods: Three electronic databases were searched from January 1964 to December 2016. True-positive, false-positive, true-negative, and false-negative values were extracted from data in each study. Sensitivity, specificity, adjusted accuracy, adjusted PPV, and adjusted NPV were calculated from those values, if not presented. A random effects model was used to calculate pooled estimates of sensitivity, specificity, adjusted accuracy, adjusted PPV, and adjusted NPV.

Results: A total of 125 articles were ident...