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- Title
Spectrum bias in the evaluation of diagnostic tests: lessons from the rapid dipstick test for urinary tract infection.
- Authors
Lachs, M S; Nachamkin, I; Edelstein, P H; Goldman, J; Feinstein, A R; Schwartz, J S
- Abstract
To determine if the leukocyte esterase and bacterial nitrite rapid dipstick test for urinary tract infection (UTI) is susceptible to spectrum bias (when a diagnostic test has different sensitivities or specificities in patients with different clinical manifestations of the disease for which the test is intended).
- Publication
Annals of internal medicine, 1992, Vol 117, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-117-2-135