Principles of medical decision making

Spine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 493-498

  Lurie, Jon D ^a   Sox, Harold C ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayes' theorem; Decision making; Diagnostic tests

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033106320     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199903010-00021     Document Type: Review

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