HC SOX Jr - Annals of internal medicine, 1986 - Am Coll Physicians The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of methods that are useful in formulating
advice about when to use diagnostic tests. If the clinician expresses diagnostic uncertainty as
the probability of a disease in a patient, Bayes' theorem may be used to predict the effect ... Cited by 266 - Related articles - All 4 versions
PF Griner, RJ Mayewski, AI Mushlin, P … - Annals of internal …, 1981 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1: Ann Intern Med. 1981 Apr;94(4 Pt 2):557-92. Selection and interpretation of
diagnostic tests and procedures. Principles and applications. Griner PF, Mayewski
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JP Kassirer - Ann Intern Med, 1989 - medisin.ntnu.no Requirements Benefits To combine clinical findings in the form of probabili- Liei requires д rigorous
definition of disca.« (-ìO). This definition, referred to as lhe "gold standard," often is based on
histologic findings or radiologic studies, but sometimes it must be based on clinical ... Cited by 161 - Related articles - All 4 versions
SG Pauker, JP Kassirer - New England Journal of Medicine, 1980 - content.nejm.org The physician's estimate of the probability that a patient has a particular disease is a principal
factor in the determination of whether to withhold treatment, obtain more data by testing, or treat
without subjecting the patient to the risks of further diagnostic tests. Using the concepts of ... Cited by 539 - Related articles - All 3 versions
DF Ransohoff, AR Feinstein - New England Journal of Medicine, 1978 - content.nejm.org To determine why many diagnostic tests have proved to be valueless after optimistic introduction
into medical practice, we reviewed a series of investigations and identified two major problems
that can cause erroneous statistical results for the "sensitivity" and "specificity" indexes of ... Cited by 1004 - Related articles - All 4 versions
A Rozanski, GA Diamond, D Berman, JS … - New England Journal …, 1983 - content.nejm.org Although exercise radionuclide ventriculography was initially reported to be a highly specific
test for coronary-artery disease, later studies reported a high false-positive rate. To verify this
turnabout, we analyzed the responses in 77 angiographically normal patients; 32 were ... Cited by 225 - Related articles - All 3 versions
MA Hlatky, DB Pryor, FEJ Harrell, RM Califf, DB … - The American journal of …, 1984 - cat.inist.fr Factors affecting sensitivity and specificity of exercise electrocardiography: multivariable
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GA Diamond, A Rozanski, JS Forrester, D … - Journal of chronic …, 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov A probabilistic model was developed which allows one to estimate sensitivity and specificity
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JH Wasson, HC Sox, RK Neff, L Goldman - New England Journal of …, 1985 - content.nejm.org The objective of clinical prediction rules is to reduce the uncertainty inherent in medical practice
by defining how to use clinical findings to make predictions. Clinical prediction rules are derived
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