On some clinically useful measures of the accuracy of diagnostic tests

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 68-70

  Sackett, David L ^a   Straus, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0031811254     PISSN: 13575376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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