Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments & Dedication
- Abbreviations/Acronyms
- 1 Introduction: understanding diagnosis and diagnostic testing
- 2 Reliability and measurement error
- 3 Dichotomous tests
- 4 Multilevel and continuous tests
- 5 Critical appraisal of studies of diagnostic tests
- 6 Screening tests
- 7 Prognostic tests and studies
- 8 Multiple tests and multivariable decision rules
- 9 Quantifying treatment effects using randomized trials
- 10 Alternatives to randomized trials for estimating treatment effects
- 11 Understanding P-values and confidence intervals
- 12 Challenges for evidence-based diagnosis
- Answers to problems
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments & Dedication
- Abbreviations/Acronyms
- 1 Introduction: understanding diagnosis and diagnostic testing
- 2 Reliability and measurement error
- 3 Dichotomous tests
- 4 Multilevel and continuous tests
- 5 Critical appraisal of studies of diagnostic tests
- 6 Screening tests
- 7 Prognostic tests and studies
- 8 Multiple tests and multivariable decision rules
- 9 Quantifying treatment effects using randomized trials
- 10 Alternatives to randomized trials for estimating treatment effects
- 11 Understanding P-values and confidence intervals
- 12 Challenges for evidence-based diagnosis
- Answers to problems
- Index
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- Evidence-Based Diagnosis , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009