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Diagnostic tests often fail to lead to changes in patient outcomes

Konstantinos C Siontis1, George C M Siontis2, Despina G Contopoulos-Ioannidis3

  • 1Department of Medicine and Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
|April 1, 2014
PubMed
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Keywords:
Diagnostic accuracyDiagnostic odds ratioDiagnostic testsEmpirical assessmentPatient outcomesRandomized controlled trials

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