Verification bias in a diagnostic accuracy study of symptom screening for tuberculosis in HIV-infected pregnant women

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1377-1378

  Hanrahan, Colleen F ^a   Westreich, Daniel ^b   Van Rie, Annelies ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84859770251     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis122     Document Type: Letter

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