Skip to main content

Table 8 Summary of comparison of PGFNAB vs USGFNAB diagnostic accuracy

From: Diagnostic accuracy of palpation versus ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy for diagnosis of malignancy in thyroid nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The number of studies

Method

Number of patient

Sensitivity

Specificity

AUC

Testc

11

PGFNAB

1128

76%

77%

0.827

 

USGFNAB

1254

90%

80%

0.92

 

(95% CI); P-value

 

Tsensa = 0.99 (0.14,1.84), P = 0.023

Tfpra = −0.120 (−0.89,0.65)

P = 0.760

Diffb = 0.093

P = 0.000023

ChiSquared = 6.28

P = 0.043

  1. AUC Area Under Curve, CI Confidence interval, Diff Difference, Tfpr Transformed false positive rate, Tsens Transformed sensitivity
  2. aComparison of differences in sensitivity and specificity of PGFNAB and USGFNAB using diagnostic meta regression
  3. bComparison of the differences in AUC from PGFNAB and USGFNAB using the ROC comparison test
  4. cComparison of the differences in sensitivity and specificity between PGFNAB and USGFNAB using the likelihood-ratio test