Recommendations for reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy: A systematic review

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  McGrath, Trevor A ^a   Alabousi, Mostafa ^b   Skidmore, Becky ^c   Korevaar, Daniël A ^d   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^d   Moher, David ^c   Thombs, Brett ^e   McInnes, Matthew D F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CHECKLIST; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS;

CHECKLIST; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85030846961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-017-0590-8     Document Type: Article

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