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(0)Sarahlouise White
Author
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Clinicians have long relied upon diagnostic tests for 'evidence' of the presence or absence of a disease or a condition. Similarly, policy makers must evaluate the value of a particular diagnostic test, compare it to any others, and decide which test should be made available or funded. Methods to synthesize evidence from diagnostic test accuracy studies are now emerging and this text examines the methodological basis to the synthesis of diagnostic...
Author
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Descriptive evidence is considered case reports, case-series reports, and cross sectional and surveillance studies. They are often the foundation of other forms of evidence and are used to help build the knowledge base in policy and practice. This book will teach you to assess critically appraised descriptive evidence for validity and applicability.