- ►annals.org [PDF] P Whiting, AWS Rutjes, JB Reitsma, AS Glas, … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Studies of diagnostic accuracy are subject to dif- ferent sources of
bias and variation than studies that evaluate the effectiveness of an
intervention. Little is known about the effects of these sources of bias ... Cited by 227 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
D Sources, D Extraction, D Synthesis - Ann Intern Med, 2004 - psg-mac43.ucsf.edu Background: Studies of diagnostic accuracy are subject to dif- ferent sources of
bias and variation than studies that evaluate the effectiveness of an
intervention. Little is known about the effects of these sources of bias ... Related articles - View as HTML - All 2 versions
P Glasziou, J Vandenbroucke, I Chalmers - British Medical Journal, 2004 - bmj.com The widespread use of hierarchies of evidence that grade research studies
according to their quality has helped to raise awareness that some forms of
evidence are more trustworthy than others. This is clearly desirable. ... Cited by 155 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
JG Lijmer, BW Mol, S Heisterkamp, GJ … - Jama, 1999 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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- ►ecmaj.com AWS Rutjes, JB Reitsma, M Di Nisio, N Smidt … - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006 - Can Med Assoc A lthough the number of test evaluations in the litera- ture is increasing, much
remains to be desired in terms of methodology. A series of surveys have shown
that only a small number of studies of diagnostic ac- curacy fulfil ... Cited by 87 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 16 versions
P Whiting, AWS Rutjes, JB Reitsma, PMM … - BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2003 - biomedcentral.com A total of nine experts in the field of diagnostics took part in the Delphi
procedure. The Delphi procedure consisted of four rounds, after which agreement
was reached on the items to be included in the tool which we have called ... Cited by 472 - Related articles - Cached - All 14 versions
- ►serveftp.com [PDF] JA Knottnerus, JW Muris - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2003 - Elsevier • In diagnostic accuracy studies, the contrast of interest can be one of the
following: one single test contrast; comparing two or more single tests; further
testing in addition to previous diagnostics; and comparing alternative ... Cited by 101 - Related articles - All 19 versions
JG Lijmer, PMM Bossuyt, SH Heisterkamp - Statistics in medicine, 2002 - dare.uva.nl Itt is indispensable for any meta-analysis that potential sources of
heterogeneity are examined,, before one considers pooling the results of primary
studies into summary estimatess with enhanced precision. In reviews of ... Cited by 101 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 4 versions
D Pewsner, M Battaglia, C Minder, A Marx, … - British Medical Journal, 2004 - bmj.com The probability of disease, given a positive or negative test result (post-test
probability), is usually obtained by calculating the likelihood ratio of the
test result and using formulas based on Bayes's theorem (see box 1), or a ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
