Caveat emptor: The treachery of work-up bias

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-344

  Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 4444284986     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.03.039     Document Type: Editorial

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