Evaluating diagnostic tests

Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 274-322

  Guyatt, Gordon H ^a   Sackett, David L ^b   Brian Haynes, R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Kilgore S Trout Research and Education Centre   (Canada)

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