Individual patient data meta-analysis of diagnostic and prognostic studies in obstetrics, gynaecology and reproductive medicine

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Broeze, Kimiko A ^a   Opmeer, Brent C ^a   Bachmann, Lucas M ^b   Broekmans, Frank J ^c   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a   Coppus, Sjors F P J ^a   Johnson, Neil P ^d   Khan, Khalid S ^e   Ter Riet, Gerben ^a   Van Der Veen, Fulco ^a   Van Wely, Madelon ^a   Mol, Ben W J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUAL PATIENT DATA META ANALYSIS; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT CODING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTION; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMANS; OVARY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 64649096365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-22     Document Type: Article

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