scholarly journals The Sniffing Bead System as a Useful Diagnostic Tool for Olfactory Dysfunction in COVID-19

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Jin Min
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Olfactory Dysfunction

scholarly journals Low specificity and sensitivity of smell identification testing for the diagnosis of Parkinson?s disease

2014 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayela Rodríguez-Violante ◽  
Paulina Gonzalez-Latapi ◽  
Azyadeh Camacho-Ordoñez ◽  
Daniel Martínez-Ramírez ◽  
Hugo Morales-Briceño ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Olfactory Dysfunction ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Specificity And Sensitivity ◽  
Identification Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The University ◽  
Smell Identification

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine if the University of Pennsylvania’s Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) is an accurate diagnostic tool for olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Method: We included 138 non-demented PD subjects and 175 control subjects matched by gender. Smell identification was tested using UPSIT. Results: The mean number of UPSIT items correctly identified by controls was 27.52±5.88; the mean score for PD subjects was 19.66±6.08 (p=<0.001). UPSIT sensitivity was 79.7% with a specificity of 68.5% using a cut-off score of ≤25. The overall accuracy for the diagnosis of PD was of 75.3%. Conclusion: UPSIT accuracy and specificity were lower than what has been previously reported. Our data demonstrates that 17.5% of items of the UPSIT were not well identified by healthy controls. Further research of the identification of a truly cross-cultural test is warranted.

The Elicited Language Analysis Procedure

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Larry J. Mattes
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Quality Measures ◽  
Analysis Procedure ◽  
Elicited Imitation ◽  
Response Quality ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Language Analysis

Elicited imitation tasks are frequently used as a diagnostic tool in evaluating children with communication handicaps. This article presents a scoring procedure that can be used to obtain an in-depth descriptive analysis of responses produced on elicited imitation tasks. The Elicited Language Analysis Procedure makes it possible to systematically evaluate responses in terms of both their syntactic and semantic relationships to the stimulus sentences presented by the examiner. Response quality measures are also included in the analysis procedure.

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