Conclusiveness resolves the conflict between quality of evidence and imprecision in GRADE

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-5

  Anttila, Sten ^a   Persson, Johannes ^b   Vareman, Niklas ^b   Sahlin, Nils Eric ^b  

^a Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Conclusiveness; Confidence in estimate; GRADE; Imprecision; Quality of evidence

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84964856595     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.03.019     Document Type: Note

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