Remarks about systematic reviews of diagnostic tests;Considerações sobre revisões sistemáticas de testes diagnósticos

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 279-281

  Atallah, Álvaro Najib ^a   Puchnick, Andrea ^a   Wu, Daniel ^a   Shigueoka, David Carlos ^a   dos Santos, Gianni Mara Silva ^a   de Lemos Júnior, Hernani Pinto ^a   Mourão, José Eduardo ^b   Iared, Wagner ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c Brazilian Cochrane Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SELECTION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870620290     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-31802012000500002     Document Type: Editorial

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