Assessing Diagnostic and Screening Tests

Evidence-Based Pediatrics and Child Health with CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 31-43

  Gilbert, Ruth ^a   Logan, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Down's syndrome; Likelihood ratios; Nomograms; Oxygen saturation monitors; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955099789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470987384.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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