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Clinical evaluation of diagnostic tests, part II: The pitfalls

H D Royal

    Medical Instrumentation
    |January 1, 1984
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    Diagnostic test evaluationClinical diagnostic accuracyHealth care resource allocationDiagnostic test errors

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