Assessing Diagnostic Confidence. A Comparative Review of Analytical Methods

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 584-592

  Ng, Chaan S ^a   Palmer, Christopher R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute abdominal pain; CT; diagnostic accuracy; Diagnostic confidence

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41949088335     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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