Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test A. Are the Results of the Study Valid?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 271, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 389-391

  Jaeschke, Roman ^a   Guyatt, Gordon ^a   Sackett, David L ^a   Bass, Eric ^a   Brill Edwards, Patrick ^a   Browman, George ^a   Cook, Deborah ^a   Farkouh, Michael ^a   Gerstein, Hertzel ^a   Haynes, Brian ^a   Hayward, Robert ^a   Holbrook, Anne ^a   Juniper, Elizabeth ^a   Lee, Hui ^a   Levine, Mitchell ^a   Moyer, Virginia ^a   Nishikawa, Jim ^a   Oxman, Andrew ^a   Patel, Ameen ^a   Philbrick, John ^a   Richardson, W Scott ^a   Sauve, Stephane ^a   Sackett, David ^a   Sinclair, Jack ^a   Trout, K S ^a   Tugwell, Peter ^a   Tunis, Sean ^a   Walter, Stephen ^a   Wilson, Mark ^a   more..

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0028012745     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03510290071040     Document Type: Article

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