Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim

Physicians are biased and imprecise, but we are better at predicting mortality in the intensive care unit than any mathematical model currently available. But even if we were flawless prognosticators, we would still be left with the larger ethical problem of what to do with prognostic information. I...

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Autor principal: Downar, James
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2750147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19664178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc7944
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description Physicians are biased and imprecise, but we are better at predicting mortality in the intensive care unit than any mathematical model currently available. But even if we were flawless prognosticators, we would still be left with the larger ethical problem of what to do with prognostic information. In order to translate prognosis into recommendation, we need to know about patient values.
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spelling pubmed-27501472010-07-20 Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim Downar, James Crit Care Commentary Physicians are biased and imprecise, but we are better at predicting mortality in the intensive care unit than any mathematical model currently available. But even if we were flawless prognosticators, we would still be left with the larger ethical problem of what to do with prognostic information. In order to translate prognosis into recommendation, we need to know about patient values. BioMed Central 2009 2009-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2750147/ /pubmed/19664178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc7944 Text en Copyright ©2009 BioMed Central Ltd
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Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim
title Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim
title_full Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim
title_fullStr Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim
title_full_unstemmed Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim
title_short Even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim
title_sort even without our biases, the outlook for prognostication is grim
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2750147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19664178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc7944
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