Synthesizing Evidence from Diagnostic Accuracy TEsts: The SEDATE guideline

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 386-395

  Sotiriadis, A ^a   Papatheodorou, S I ^b   Martins, W P ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

DATA ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84959481509     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.15762     Document Type: Review

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