Reporting weaknesses in conference abstracts of diagnostic accuracy studies in ophthalmology

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1464-1467

  Korevaar, Daniël A ^a   Cohen, Jérémie F ^a,b   De Ronde, Maurice W J ^a   Virgili, Gianni ^c   Dickersin, Kay ^d   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PARIS DESCARTES UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CORNEA DISEASE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRY EYE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UVEITIS; DOCUMENTATION; EYE DISEASES; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STANDARDS; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84964969795     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.3577     Document Type: Article

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