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Which Is More Useful in Predicting Hospital Mortality -Dichotomised Blood Test Results or Actual Test Values? A Retrospective Study in Two Hospitals

BACKGROUND: Routine blood tests are an integral part of clinical medicine and in interpreting blood test results clinicians have two broad options. (1) Dichotomise the blood tests into normal/abnormal or (2) use the actual values and overlook the reference values. We refer to these as the “binary” a...

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Autores principales: Mohammed, Mohammed A., Rudge, Gavin, Wood, Gordon, Smith, Gary, Nangalia, Vishal, Prytherch, David, Holder, Roger, Briggs, Jim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3471950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23077528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046860