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No role for quality scores in systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of consensus regarding the use of quality scores in diagnostic systematic reviews. The objective of this study was to use different methods of weighting items included in a quality assessment tool for diagnostic accuracy studies (QUADAS) to produce an overall quality scor...

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Autores principales: Whiting, Penny, Harbord, Roger, Kleijnen, Jos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1184082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15918898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-5-19