Disease prevalence dependent failure rate in diagnostic management studies on suspected deep vein thrombosis: communication from the SSC of the ISTH

J Thromb Haemost. 2017 Nov;15(11):2270-2273. doi: 10.1111/jth.13805. Epub 2017 Sep 18.

Authors

C E A Dronkers¹, Y M Ende-Verhaar¹, P A Kyrle², M Righini³, S C Cannegieter^{1

4}, M V Huisman¹, F A Klok¹; Subcommittee on Predictive and Diagnostic Variables in Thrombotic Disease

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
² Department of Medicine I, General Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³ Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.

PMID: 28922557
DOI: 10.1111/jth.13805

No abstract available

Publication types

Meta-Analysis
Practice Guideline
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Predictive Value of Tests
Prevalence
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Factors
Treatment Failure
Venous Thrombosis / blood
Venous Thrombosis / diagnosis*
Venous Thrombosis / epidemiology
Venous Thrombosis / therapy*