Thoracic ultrasonography versus chest radiography for detection of pneumothoraces: Challenges in deriving and interpreting summary diagnostic accuracy estimates

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Roberts, Derek J ^a   Niven, Daniel J ^a,b   James, Matthew T ^a,b   Ball, Chad G ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE; THORAX DRAINAGE; RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 84895545362     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc13759     Document Type: Letter

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