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¹ Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.
² Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁴ Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁵ Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁷ Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.

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Brooke Levis et al. Am J Epidemiol. 2017.

. 2017 Oct 1;186(7):895.

doi: 10.1093/aje/kwx276.

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Brooke Levis^{1

2}, Andrea Benedetti^{2

3

4}, Brett D Thombs^{1

2

3

5

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.
² Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁴ Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁵ Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁷ Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.

PMID: 28978198
PMCID: PMC5860472
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx276

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Selective Cutoff Reporting in Studies of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: A Comparison of Conventional and Individual-Patient-Data Meta-Analyses of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Depression Screening Tool.
Levis B, Benedetti A, Levis AW, Ioannidis JPA, Shrier I, Cuijpers P, Gilbody S, Kloda LA, McMillan D, Patten SB, Steele RJ, Ziegelstein RC, Bombardier CH, de Lima Osório F, Fann JR, Gjerdingen D, Lamers F, Lotrakul M, Loureiro SR, Löwe B, Shaaban J, Stafford L, van Weert HCPM, Whooley MA, Williams LS, Wittkampf KA, Yeung AS, Thombs BD. Levis B, et al. Am J Epidemiol. 2017 May 15;185(10):954-964. doi: 10.1093/aje/kww191. Am J Epidemiol. 2017. PMID: 28419203 Free PMC article.
RE: "Selective Cutoff Reporting in Studies of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: A Comparison of Conventional and Individual-Patient-Data Meta-Analyses of the Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 Depression Screening Tool".
Rücker G, Steinhauser S, Schumacher M. Rücker G, et al. Am J Epidemiol. 2017 Oct 1;186(7):894. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwx275. Am J Epidemiol. 2017. PMID: 28978197 No abstract available.

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