Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10513686 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2013 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
In the presence of varying reference tests, avoidance of bias and invalid confidence intervals for diagnostic performance requires applying a model that accounts for differences in reference test and heterogeneity among studies.
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Statistical methods for the meta-analysis of diagnostic tests must take into account the use of surrogate standards
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