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. 2023 Nov 16;2(4):100298.
doi: 10.1016/j.inpm.2023.100298. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Are false-positive rates of diagnostic medial branch blocks correct? Introducing the inconsistency rate

Stephan Klessinger  1 , Nikolai Bogduk  2
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Are false-positive rates of diagnostic medial branch blocks correct? Introducing the inconsistency rate

Stephan Klessinger et al. Interv Pain Med. .
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Structure and contents of a contingency table for measuring the validity of a diagnostic test.
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Structure and contents of a contingency table used to test the validity of a single diagnostic block.
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