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This chapter examines the methodology of diagnostic test accuracy studies. It emphasizes the critical importance in defining participants and test methods (diagnostic test and reference standard). The role of pragmatic diagnostic test accuracy studies, recruiting consecutive patients with few exclusion criteria, in comparison to proof-of-concept experimental studies, with patient groups preselected by diagnosis, is emphasized.

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