Anticipating missing reference standard data when planning diagnostic accuracy studies.

Naaktgeboren, Christiana A; de Groot, Joris A H; Rutjes, Anne W S; Bossuyt, Patrick M M; Reitsma, Johannes B; Moons, Karel G M · BMJ · 2016

prospective_cohort · Level II

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Abstract

Results obtained using a reference standard may be missing for some participants in diagnostic accuracy studies. This paper looks at methods for dealing with such missing data when designing or conducting a prospective diagnostic accuracy study

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