Hamzah Abdul Majid Serag

Checking Consistency among the Four Basic Indicators of Diagnostic Testing in Saudi Medical Journals

Hamzah Abdul Majid Serag & Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi · Asian Journal of Medical Principles and Clinical Practice · 2021

We provide a novel method for validating any purported set of the four most prominent indicators of diagnostic testing (Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value, and Negative Predictive Value), by observing that these indicators constitute three rather than four indepe...

Open access Research Article

Has the Pandemic Triggered a ‘Paperdemic’? Towards an Assessment of Diagnostic Indicators for COVID-19

Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi & Hamzah Abdul Majid Serag · International Journal of Pathogen Research · 2021

This paper is a preliminary step towards the assessment of an alarming widespread belief that victims of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 include the quality and accuracy of scientific publications about it. Our initial results suggest that this belief cannot be readily ignored,...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijpr/2021/v6i230158