Anatomy of a meta-analysis: A critical review of "Exercise echocardiography or exercise SPECT imaging? A meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance"

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 599-615

  Kymes, Steven M ^a   Bruns, Denise E ^c,e   Shaw, Leslee J ^d   Gillespie, Kathleen N ^b   Fletcher, James W ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Environmental Health   (United States)

^c Molecular Biosystems Inc   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Mallinckrodt Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Coronary artery disease; Diagnostic tests; Meta analysis; Summary receiver operating characteristics curve

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034518137     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mnc.2000.109027     Document Type: Article

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