Assessing the Predictive Validity of the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method Criteria for Performing Carotid Endarterectomy
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- general essays
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
- Vol. 14 (4), 707-727
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300012022
Abstract
We assessed the predictive validity of an expert panel's ratings of the appropriateness of carotid endarterectomy by comparing ratings to the results of subsequent randomized clinical trials. We found the trials confirmed the ratings for 44 indications (covering almost 30% of operations performed in 1981) and refuted the ratings for none.This publication has 45 references indexed in Scilit:
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