Meta-analytic estimation of measurement variability and assessment of its impact on decision-making: the case of perioperative haemoglobin concentration monitoring

Meta-analytic estimation of measurement variability and assessment of its impact on decision-making: the case of perioperative haemoglobin concentration monitoring

Abstract Background As a part of a larger Health Technology Assessment (HTA), the measurement error of a device used to monitor the hemoglobin concentration of a patient undergoing surgery, as well as its decision consequences, were to be estimated from published data. Methods A Bayesian hierarchica...

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Main Authors: Emmanuel Charpentier, Vincent Looten, Björn Fahlgren, Alexandre Barna, Loïc Guillevin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-01-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Methods
meta-analysis as topic
Observer variation
Reproducibility of results
Predictive value of tests
Meta-analysis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-016-0107-5

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