Evaluation of the added value of a diagnostic test;Evaluatie van de toegevoegde waarde van diagnostische tests

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 144, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 1256-1261

  Moons, K G M ^a   Van Der Graaf, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREVALENCE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NETHERLANDS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034709663     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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