Evidence-based medicine for diagnostic questions

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-15

  Evers, Johannes L H ^a   Land, Jolande A ^a   Mol, Ben W ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chlamydia antibody testing; Hysterosalpingography; Laparoscopy; PICO; Tubal factor subfertility

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SUBFERTILITY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBE PATENCY TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MEDLINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0037603063     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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