Are reporting standards of diagnostic test evaluation unrealistic?

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 220-222

  Lassere, Marissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE EROSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EDEMA; EDITORIAL; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; WRIST;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 76749130729     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.091254     Document Type: Editorial

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