Systematic Reviews of Evaluations of Diagnostic and Screening Tests

Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta-Analysis in Context: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 248-282

  Deeks, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic information; Diagnostic investigation; Screening tests; Statistical pooling; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948771848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470693926.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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