The Threshold Approach to Clinical Decision Making

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 302, Issue 20, 1980, Pages 1109-1117

  Pauker, Stephen G ^a   Kassirer, Jerome P ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; THERAPY;

EID: 0018883380     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198005153022003     Document Type: Article

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