Evaluating Medical Tests

by Helena Chmura Kraemer

Book Overview

A growing body of medical research suggests that many medical tests used for diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring response to treatment are unnecessary or inappropriate, yield inaccurate or misleading results, and add to the incidence of iatrogenic disease. Many such tests go into common clinical use without convincing documentation of their value because current methods for evaluating medical tests produce inconsistent results. Evaluating Medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803946120
• ISBN13: 9780803946125
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 7.8"