The Conduct and Reporting of Meta-Analyses of Studies of Diagnostic Tests, and a Consideration of ROC Curves. Answers to the January 2010 Journal Club Questions

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 570-577

  Reynolds, Teri A ^a   Schriger, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; META ANALYSIS; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD;

APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 77952303768     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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