Development and use of a quality scale for assessing studies that analyze the diagnostic capacity of capsule endoscopy

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1261-1267

  Varela Lema, L ^a   Ruano Ravina, Alberto ^a,b  

^a Galician Agency for Health Technology Assessment   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; DATABASES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH;

EID: 33845711835     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-944958     Document Type: Article

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