The conditional relative odds ratio provided less biased results for comparing diagnostic test accuracy in meta-analyses

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 461-469

  Suzuki, Sadao ^a,b   Moro Oka, Takeo ^a   Choudhry, Niteesh K ^c,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test; Meta analysis; Odds ratio; Paired comparison; ROC curve; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERROR; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2942627623     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.09.017     Document Type: Article

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