Diagnostic tests: Distinguishing good tests from bad and even ugly ones

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 278-284

  Farr, Barry M ^a   Shapiro, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; RECYCLING; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 0034167514     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501760     Document Type: Article

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