Differences between univariate and bivariate models for summarizing diagnostic accuracy may not be large

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1292-1300

  Simel, David L ^a,b   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^c  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tests; Likelihood ratios; Meta analysis; Random effects; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHANGIOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350571274     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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