Patent Document ID: 20100241472
Application ID: 12610702
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of determining the suitability of a diagnostic test for confirmation of a disease in humans comprising: obtaining disease treatment results for a plurality of patients grouped by disease in a Diagnostic Related Group (DRG); obtaining a plurality of diagnostic tests corresponding to each patient, each diagnostic test having a test result selected from the group comprising a positive result, a negative result, and an equivocal result; retrieving a first result for a first diagnostic test performed for each of the plurality of patients; retrieving a second result for a second diagnostic test performed for each of the plurality of patients; and transforming the first and second results to create a system value by solving for [ sign ] [ abs ( log ( X + 1 N ) ) - log ( Y + N ) ] * ( 1 - ( N - T ) ) * ( X + T ) , for where X is the number of positive results for the first diagnostic test, Y is the number of negative results for the first diagnostic test, T is the total number of positive results, negative results, and equivocal results for the first diagnostic test, and N is the total number of positive results, negative results, and equivocal results for the first diagnostic test and positive results, negative results, and equivocal results for the second diagnostic test, wherein the system value represents the suitability of the diagnostic test for confirmation of the disease.