QUADAS and STARD: Evaluating the quality of diagnostic accuracy studies;QUADAS e STARD: Avaliação da qualidade de estudos de acurácia de testes diagnósticos

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 416-422

  Oliveira, Maria Regina Fernandes de ^a   Gomes, Almério de Castro ^b   Toscano, Cristiana Maria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Evaluation studies as topic; Reproducibility of results; Review literature as topic; Validity of tests

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALARIA; QUALITY CONTROL; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79953872152     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102011000200021     Document Type: Article

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