The evaluation of diagnostic tests: Principles, problems, and new developments

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue , 1996, Pages 463-471

  Sox, Harold C ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Diagnostic test; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029983522     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.47.1.463     Document Type: Review

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