Journal article
How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test
Abstract
PURPOSE: Urologists frequently confront diagnostic dilemmas, prompting them to select, perform and interpret additional diagnostic tests. Before applying a given diagnostic test the user should ascertain that the chosen test would indeed help decide whether the patient has a particular target condition. In this article in the Users' Guide to the Urological Literature series we illustrate the guiding principles of how to critically appraise a …
Authors
Scales CD; Dahm P; Sultan S; Campbell-Scherer D; Devereaux PJ
Journal
Journal of Urology, Vol. 180, No. 2, pp. 469–476
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
August 2008
DOI
10.1016/j.juro.2008.04.026
ISSN
0021-0005