Journal of clinical epidemiology
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To investigate the agreement between self-reported and insurance claim of the utilization of health care. ⋯ Agreement between self-reported utilization and insurance claims were fairly good in general population.
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To show how the bivariate random effects meta-analysis model can be used to study the relation between the explanatory variables and the performance of diagnostic tests as characterized by a summary receiver operating characteristic curve (SROCC). ⋯ The bivariate random effects meta-analysis model is an appropriate and convenient framework to investigate the effect of covariates on the performance of diagnostic tests as measured by SROCCs.