Voorbeelden van gold standard

• Evaluation of alignments is usually carried out with respect to some previously created gold standard alignments.

• Another concern with the design of this study is reference test bias, inherent with the use of an "imperfect" gold standard.

• However, as all constituent diagnostic methods have imperfect sensitivity, this ' gold standard ' cannot have perfect sensitivity either.

• If a gold standard is available, even for a subset of indications, assess association of the panel findings with the gold standard.

• All subjects were blinded to both the previously contoured "gold standard" anatomy outlines and each other's outlining.

• Because of their strong internal validity, traditional blinded trials are still the gold standard for efficacy assessment of medical interventions.

• Life-span changes, interindividual differences, and intra-individual variability in brain-behavior mappings are not adequately described or explained in relation to a "gold standard" of normality.

• The gold standard provided just such an ideology, supported by a rhetoric of morality and rectitude.

• The mentality of the gold standard proved resistant to change even under the most pressing economic circumstances.

• In this environment the gold standard became an engine for de-ation.

• Or, more likely, not thinking through the reformulation and implications of this "gold standard" consent process.

• A second disadvantage is that controlled experiments, often taken to be the gold standard of causal inference, are much less available to social scientists.

• The current 'gold standard' for diagnosis of bacteraemia is still the blood culture.

• This is usually achieved by comparing an instrument against one or more 'gold standard' instruments.

• In the absence of a serological 'gold standard', the search for improvements in diagnostic accuracy continues.