{
  "abstract": "Recommendations about healthcare related testing in guidelines are common. Tests can be used for several purposes: screening, surveillance, risk classification, diagnosis, staging, treatment triage, determination of prognosis and monitoring/follow-up. 1 The development of testing recommendations in guidelines is challenging, especially because the benefit of a test not only depends on test characteristics, such as sensitivity and specificity, but also on population characteristics and test consequences, such as management.2–4 Furthermore, the role of a new test in comparison to the existing testing scenario should be defined, since this influences the interpretation of the new test’s value. The following roles of new tests have been identified in the literature: triage, replacement, add-on, and parallel/combined.5",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Maastricht University Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands",
        "PROVA, Varsseveld, The Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Mariska Tuut"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Maastricht University Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Jochen Cals"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Maastricht University Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Jesse Jansen"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Maastricht University Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands",
        "Dutch College of General Practitioners, Utrecht, The Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Jako S Burgers"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Developing guideline recommendations about tests: educational examples of test-management pathways",
  "uid": "7707edfe-9e27-56a0-953c-95b9aa7f2c77"
}