Measuring small changes versus measurement error

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 576-577

  Sievänen, Harri ^a  

^a UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BONE FRAGILITY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMUR NECK; FEMUR SHAFT; LETTER; MEASUREMENT ERROR; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERIOSTEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THICKNESS; TIBIA SHAFT;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 41849104703     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.071109     Document Type: Letter

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