Empirical evidence of design-related bias in studies of diagnostic tests

JAMA

Volumn 282, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1061-1066

  Lijmer, Jeroen G ^a   Mol, Ben Willem ^a   Heisterkamp, Siem ^a   Bonsel, Gouke J ^a   Prins, Martin H ^a   Van Der Meulen, Jan H P ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

EID: 0033568729     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.282.11.1061     Document Type: Article

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