What the clinician really needs to know: Questioning the clinical usefulness of sensitivity and specificity in studies of screening tests

Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 226-230

  Camp, Bonnie W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Predictive values; Prevalence; Screening tests; Sensitivity and specificity; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCREENING TEST; VARIANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33748249840     PISSN: 0196206X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004703-200606000-00009     Document Type: Article

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