On 2014 Jul 07, Ryan Radecki commented:

Post-publication commentary:

"Highly-Sensitive, But Not Highly Valuable"

There is a great deal of continuing debate raging over the use of “high sensitivity” troponins in the Emergency Department. But, it’s not the test alone at fault – the responsibility for interpreting and acting upon the results lay with clinicians. In the era of conventional troponins, the test was a powerful tool to rule-in myocardial infarction. With high sensitivity troponins, the greater value in the tool is in ruling-out....

http://www.emlitofnote.com/2014/06/highly-sensitive-but-not-highly-valuable.html

On 2014 Jul 07, Ryan Radecki commented:

Post-publication commentary:

"Highly-Sensitive, But Not Highly Valuable"

There is a great deal of continuing debate raging over the use of “high sensitivity” troponins in the Emergency Department. But, it’s not the test alone at fault – the responsibility for interpreting and acting upon the results lay with clinicians. In the era of conventional troponins, the test was a powerful tool to rule-in myocardial infarction. With high sensitivity troponins, the greater value in the tool is in ruling-out....

http://www.emlitofnote.com/2014/06/highly-sensitive-but-not-highly-valuable.html