A new method to address verification bias in studies of clinical screening tests: Cervical cancer screening assays as an example

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 343-353

  Xue, Xiaonan ^a   Kim, Mimi Y ^a   Castle, Philip E ^a   Strickler, Howard D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical screening tests; Positive and negative predictive values; Sensitivity; Specificity; Verification bias; Weighted generalized estimating equations

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SCREENING TESTS; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; SENSITIVITY; SPECIFICITY; VERIFICATION BIAS; WEIGHTED GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84894955959     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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