Designing 2-phase prevalence studies in the absence of a "gold standard" test

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 369-378

  Salim, Agus ^a   Welsh, Alan H ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Efficiency; Mass screening; Patient selection; Psychiatry; Sampling studies

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPREAD; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL HEALTH;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING;

ALGORITHMS; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67749135507     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp122     Document Type: Article

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