Evaluation of diagnostic tests for infectious diseases: General principles

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Banoo, Shabir ^a   Bell, David ^b   Bossuyt, Patrick ^c   Herring, Alan ^d   Mabey, David ^e   Poole, Freddie ^f   Smith, Peter G ^e   Sriram, N ^g   Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda ^h   Linke, Ralf ⁱ   O'Brien, Rick ⁱ   Perkins, Mark ⁱ   Cunningham, Jane ^j   Matsoso, Precious ^j   Nathanson, Carl Michael ^j   Olliaro, Piero ^j   Peeling, Rosanna W ^j   Ramsay, Andy ^j  

^a Medicines Control Council of South Africa   (South Africa)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^g N Sriram is at the Tulip Group of Companies   (India)

^h US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

ⁱ FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE NEW DIAGNOSTICS   (Switzerland)

^j UNICEF   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33751215222     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1570     Document Type: Article

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