Decision-making about healthcare related tests and diagnostic strategies: A review of methodological and practical challenges

In this first of a series of five articles we provide an overview of how and why healthcare related tests and diagnostic strategies (HCTDS) are currently applied. We also describe how our findings can be integrated with existing frameworks for making decisions that guide the use of HCTDS.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - September 12, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Reem A. Mustafa, Wojtek Wiercioch, Adrienne Cheung, Barbara Prediger, Jan Brozek, Patrick Bossuyt, Amit X. Garg, Monika Lelgemann, Diedrich B üehler, Holger J. Schünemann Source Type: research