Meta-analytic methods for diagnostic test accuracy

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 119-130

  Irwig, Les ^a   Macaskill, Petra ^a   Glasziou, Paul ^b   Fahey, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tests; Meta analysis; Reproducibility of results; ROC curve; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; META ANALYSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; META-ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0028795817     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(94)00099-C     Document Type: Article

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