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Published in: Digestive Diseases and Sciences 6/2023

07-03-2023 | Concise Commentary

Concise Commentary: Testing the Reliability and Accuracy of the Fecobionics Device

Author: Eric D. Shah

Published in: Digestive Diseases and Sciences | Issue 6/2023

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Gastroenterologists rely on medical devices for diagnostic testing to clarify underlying pathology and personalize treatments. Since medical devices have long offered gastroenterologists the ability to investigate the structure and function of luminal organs, these devices must be reliable and accurate. Reliability is defined as the ability of a device to produce the same result each time that a measurement is obtained whereas accuracy is defined as the ability of a device to measure what it actually intends to measure compared with a reference gold standard. …
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Metadata
Title
Concise Commentary: Testing the Reliability and Accuracy of the Fecobionics Device
Author
Eric D. Shah
Publication date
07-03-2023
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Digestive Diseases and Sciences / Issue 6/2023
Print ISSN: 0163-2116
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2568
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-023-07891-8

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