Imaging: the need for standardization

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1001-1018

  Lassere, Marissa N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

calibration; discrimination; reliability; responsiveness; standards; validity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALIDITY;

CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY;

EID: 56549129072     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.09.003     Document Type: Review

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