Understanding screening tests: The key to avoiding pitfalls in interpretation

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 46-68

  Grimes, David A ^a,b  

^a Biomedical Affairs   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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