Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test B. What Are the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 271, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 703-707

  Jaeschke, Roman ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a   Sackett, David L ^a   Bass, Eric ^a   Edwards, Patrick Brill ^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   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

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GUIDELINES; HUMAN; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PERIODICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0028760247     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03510330081039     Document Type: Article

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