Ordinal regression for classification of patients into one of the individual Phadiatop test groups

Abstract

This study was based on the examination of Phadiatop onerous test at the Clinic of Occupational and Preventive Medicine in order to save money and not to make unnecessary testing. The aim of this study is to assess the outcome of the test Phadiatop using personal or family medical records history only. This estimation used statistical methods, specifically ordinal regression. The most important findings are that Phadiatop test result does not imply eczema; it is a different immune response and the disease is not relevant in personal or family anamnesis. The success rate of classifying each patient into one of the five Phadiatop test groups according to the seriousness of diseases was about 68%. Also a testing based on age groups of the patients was done using this database. The presence of the positive Phadiatop test was the most common for people born between 1972 and 1981, where the genetic predispositions for a positive Phadiatop test results are about 39%.