Making sense of diagnostic tests likelihood ratios

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 130-131

  Perera, Rafael ^a   Heneghan, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; NOMOGRAM; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 33750327754     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebm.11.5.130-a     Document Type: Article

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