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verification bias: a standalone construct

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Clinical epidemiology

distortion of test accuracy when only some patients, chosen partly by their test results, receive the reference standard.

In clinical epidemiology, verification bias refers to distortion of test accuracy when only some patients, chosen partly by their test results, receive the reference standard. This meaning comes from Begg (1983) in Biometrics.[1]

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accuracy3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs bias6 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs distortion4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Begg, C. B., & Greenes, R. A. (1983). Assessment of Diagnostic Tests When Disease Verification is Subject to Selection Bias. Biometrics, 39(1), 207. https://doi.org/10.2307/2530820

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