Clinical Judgment revisited: The distraction of quantitative models

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 799-805

  Feinstein, Alvan R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0028209404     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-120-9-199405010-00012     Document Type: Review

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