Regular ArticlePelvic Inflammatory Disease — an Evidence-based Approach to Diagnosis☆
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2012, American Journal of Obstetrics and GynecologyCitation Excerpt :Most of the PID cases were clinically diagnosed in this study. This is a weakness as the clinical diagnosis of PID has low sensitivity compared to laparoscopy.40,41 However, this mode of diagnosis was equal for both cases and controls.
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2006, Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and GynaecologyCitation Excerpt :A comparison using clinical and laparoscopic diagnosis and a wide range of clinical features (Table 1) and strict laparoscopic criteria (Table 2) reported that only 66% of woman with clinically diagnosed PID have the condition and that standard clinical criteria also fail to identify 10% of cases subsequently diagnosed by laparoscopy or laparotomy.38 A meta-analysis of 19 studies evaluating the clinical diagnosis of PID in a variety of settings (grade 2 evidence), showed that between 30 and 40% of women were incorrectly diagnosed as having PID in the absence of laparascopic evidence.39 It also concluded that where there are strict clinical criteria, the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis is greater and where extended entry criteria are used, the specificity of the clinical diagnosis is poor.
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This review is based on an oral presentation at a Symposium on “Current Management in Infection” presented at the Federation of Infection Societies meeting in Manchester in 1998.