User's guide to the surgical literature: How to use an article about a diagnostic test

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1133-1140

  Bhandari, Mohit ^a   Montori, Victor M ^a   Swiontkowski, Marc F ^b   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0038012898     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200306000-00027     Document Type: Review

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