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Diagnostic test accuracy: methods for systematic review and meta-analysis

Jared M Campbell1, Miloslav Klugar, Sandrine Ding

  • 11The Joanna Briggs Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 2Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, The Czech Republic (Middle European) Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care: An Affiliated Centre of The Joanna Briggs Institute, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic 3Bureau d'Echanges des Savoirs Pour des praTiques Exemplaires de Soins (BEST): An Affiliate Centre of The Joanna Briggs Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland 4Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Institute for the Study of Child Development, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 5Center for Kliniske Retningslinjer, Institut for Medicin and Sundhedsteknologi, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark 6Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and Translation, A Collaborating Center of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Division of Nursing Science, Rutgers School of Nursing 7Department of Quantitative Methods, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Newark, New Jersey, USA 8Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

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