Clinicians' guide to evaluating diagnostic and screening tests in psychiatry

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 446-454

  Warner, James ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST CHARLES HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 8644263082     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.10.6.446     Document Type: Article

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