Interpreting Diagnostic Tests Using Probability
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These notes detail my 40-minute lecture given 11 June 1995 as part of the Seventh Annual Intensive Review of Internal Medicine, a symposium conducted by the Cleveland Clinic. I was asked to review how probability is used with diagnostic testing. Our main question is: How can diagnostic results and other information about a patient be used to estimate the chance that he/she has a particular “disease?” First, however, we must address: In general, how well does the test perform as a diagnostic tool for this disease?
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تاریخ انتشار 2004