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Gold Standard Test

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Gold Standard Test
The tests and procedures necessary to definitively establish to a high level of certainty the presence or absence of a particular disease in an individual
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The oral food challenge, in which patients consume the suspected allergenic food, is the gold standard test.
Food-allergy fears lead to overly restrictive diets by Asian News International
In absence of any gold standard test, use of the first (unproven, unvalidated) antibody test as the basis for supposed validation of all later tests.
HIV tests are not HIV tests by Bauer, Henry H. / Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
When measuring the visual acuity of a child aged 4 years during a screening process, which of the tests shown here is recommended as the gold standard test to be used, according to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists?
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