Incorporation of meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy studies into a clinical/economic decision analytic framework

An accurate diagnosis is a crucial part of an effective treatment. Diagnostic errors cause unwanted side effects for healthy individuals and witheld treatments for diseased patients. Meta-analysis techniques allow the accuracy of diagnostic tests to be estimated using all the available sources of ev...

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Main Author: Novielli, Nicola
Other Authors: Cooper, Nicola ; Sutton, Alexander
Published: University of Leicester 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548450