A meta-analysis derivation of continuous likelihood ratios for diagnosing pleural fluid exudates

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1591-1599

  Heffner, John E ^a   Highland, Kristin ^b   Brown, Lee K ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; BINARY LIKELIHOOD RATIO; CALCULATION; CONTINUOUS LIKELIHOOD RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL LIKELIHOOD RATIO; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHOLESTEROL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 0038206926     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200301-048PP     Document Type: Review

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