Systematic survey of randomized trials evaluating the impact of alternative diagnostic strategies on patient-important outcomes

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 84, Issue , 2017, Pages 61-69

  El Dib, Regina ^a,b   Tikkinen, Kari A O ^c   Akl, Elie A ^d,e   Gomaa, Huda A ^f   Mustafa, Reem A ^g,h   Agarwal, Arnav ⁱ   Carpenter, Christopher R ^j   Zhang, Yuchen ^k   Jorge, Eliane C ^a   Almeida, Ricardo A M B ^a   do Nascimento Junior, Paulo ^a   Doles, Joao Vitor P ^a   Mustafa, Ahmad A ^l   Sadeghirad, Behnam ^m   Lopes, Luciane C ⁿ   Bergamaschi, Cristiane C ⁿ   Suzumura, Erica A ^o   Cardoso, Marília M A ^a   Corrente, José Eduardo ^a   Stone, Samuel B ^p   Schunemann, Holger J ^g,q   Guyatt, Gordon H ^g,k   more..

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^e American University of Beirut Medical Center ^*  (Canada)

^f Tanta Chest Hospital   (Egypt)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^m KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOROCABA   (Brazil)

^o Hospital Do Coração de São Paulo HCor   (Brazil)

^p NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Canada)

^q Health Sciences North   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Accuracy; Alternative diagnostic strategies; Clinical trials; Diagnostic techniques and procedures; Evidence based medicine; Patient outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EVALUATION STUDY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; MEDLINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MEDLINE; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85011275785     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.12.009     Document Type: Article

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