What is the cut-off for positive and negative likelihood ratios?

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What is the cut-off for positive and negative likelihood ratios to assess a new diagnostic test? In all conditions, contextualization is the key but having a reference cut off would help the clinicians.

Sébastien Buczinski

It really depends on the test. In clinics PLR>20 and NLR

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