Diagnostic accuracy reporting guidelines should prescribe reporting, not modeling

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 355-356

  Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS FOR REPORTING STUDIES OF DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY;

EID: 60549094217     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.11.002     Document Type: Note

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