Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: The STARD initiative

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 357-363

  Bossuyt, Patrick M ^a   Reitsma, Johannes B ^a   Bruns, David E ^b   Gatsonis, Constantine A ^c   Glasziou, Paul P ^d   Irwig, Les M ^e   Lijmer, Jeroen G ^a   Moher, David ^f   Rennie, Drummond ^g   De Vet, Henrica C W ^h  

^a Department of Clinical Epidemiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b Clinical Chemistry   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f Chalmers Research Group   (Canada)

^g AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERIODICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 10744223610     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/000456303766476986     Document Type: Article

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