Pretest expectations strongly influence interpretation of abnormal laboratory results and further management

BACKGROUND: Abnormal results of diagnostic laboratory tests can be difficult to interpret when disease probability is very low. Although most physicians generally do not use Bayesian calculations to interpret abnormal results, their estimates of pretest disease probability and reasons for ordering d...

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Autores principales: Houben, Paul HH, van der Weijden, Trudy, Winkens, Bjorn, Winkens, Ron AG, Grol, Richard PTM
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20158908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-11-13

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20158908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-11-13

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