How Much Overtesting Is Needed to Safely Exclude a Diagnosis? A Different Perspective on Triage Testing Using Bayes' Theorem

Ruling out disease often requires expensive or potentially harmful confirmation testing. For such testing, a less invasive triage test is often used. Intuitively, few negative confirmatory tests suggest success of this approach. However, if negative confirmation tests become too rare, too many disea...

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Autores principales: Sikkens, Jonne J., Beekman, Djoeke G., Thijs, Abel, Bossuyt, Patrick M., Smulders, Yvo M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4777363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26939066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150891

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4777363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26939066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150891

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