Users' guides to the medical literature: XV. How to use an article about disease probability for differential diagnosis

JAMA

Volumn 281, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1214-1219

  Richardson, W Scott ^b   Wilson, Mark C ^c   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a,d   Cook, Deborah J ^a   Nishikawa, James ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER NETWORK; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPERVENTILATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PANIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033531654     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.281.13.1214     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. Weber BE, Kapoor WN. Evaluation and outcomes of patients with palpitations. Am J Med. 1996;100: 138-148.
2. Sox HC, Blatt MA, Higgins MC, Marton KI. Medical Decision Making. Boston, Mass: Butterworth; 1988.
3. Barondess JA, Carpenter CCJ, eds. Differential Diagnosis. Philadelphia, Pa: Lea & Febiger; 1994.
4. Glass RD. Diagnosis: A Brief Introduction. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press; 1996.
5. Engel GL. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science. 1977;196:129-136.
6. Laupacis A, Wells G, Richardson WS, Tugwell P, for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature, V: how to use an article about prognosis. JAMA. 1994;272:234-237.
7. Guyatt GH, Sackett DL, Cook DJ, for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature, II: how to use an article about therapy or prevention, A: are the results of the study valid? JAMA. 1993;270:2598-2601.
8. Guyatt GH, Sackett DL, Cook DJ, for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature, II: how to use an article about therapy or prevention, B. JAMA. 1994;271:59-63.
9. Dans AL, Dans LF, Guyatt GH, Richardson WS, for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature, XIV: how to decide on the applicability of clinical trial results to your patient. JAMA. 1998;279:545-549.
10. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL, for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature, III: how to use an article about a diagnostic test, A. JAMA. 1994;271:389-391.
11. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL, for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature, III: how to use an article about a diagnostic test, B. JAMA. 1994;271:703-707.
12. Pauker SG, Kassirer JP. The threshold approach to clinical decision making. N Engl J Med. 1980;302: 1109-1117.
13. Tversky A, Kahneman D. Judgment under uncertainty. Science. 1974;185:1124-1131.
14. Dawson NV, Arkes HR. Systematic errors in medical decision making: judgment limitations. J Gen Intern Med. 1987;2:183-187.
15. Kassirer JP, Kopelman RI. Cognitive errors in diagnosis. Am J Med. 1989;86:433-441.
16. Guyatt GH, Patterson C, Ali M, et al. Diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia in the elderly. Am J Med. 1990;88:205-209.
17. Kroenke K. Symptoms and science: the frontiers of primary care research [editorial]. J Gen Intern Med. 1997;12:509-510.
18. Fletcher RH, Fletcher SW, Wagner EH. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. 3rd ed. Baltimore, Md: Williams & Wilkins; 1996:61-64.
19. Sox HC, Hickam DH, Marton KI, et al. Using the patient's history to estimate the probability of coronary artery disease. Am J Med. 1990;89:7-14.
20. Katz DA, Bates DW, Rittenberg E, et al. Predicting Clostridium difficile stool cytotoxin results in hospitalized patients with diarrhea. J Gen Intern Med. 1997;12:57-62.
21. von Reyn CF, Levy BS, Arbeit RD, et al. Infective endocarditis: an analysis based on strict case definitions. Ann Intern Med. 1981;94:505-517.
22. Durack DT, Lukes AS, Bright DK, and the Duke Endocarditis Service. New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Am J Med. 1994;96:200-209.
23. Kroenke K, Lucas CA, Rosenberg ML, et al. Causes of persistent dizziness: a prospective study of 100 patients in ambulatory care. Ann Intern Med. 1992;117:898-904.
24. Kapoor WN. Evaluation and outcome of patients with syncope. Medicine. 1990;69:160-175.
25. Pratter MR, Bartter T, Akers S, et al. An algorithmic approach to chronic cough. Ann Intern Med. 1993; 119:977-983.
26. Benbadis SR, Sila CA, Cristea RL. Mental status changes and stroke. J Gen Intern Med. 1994;9;485-487.
27. Ghali JK, Kadakia S, Cooper R, Ferlinz J. Precipitating factors leading to decompensation of heart failure. Arch Intern Med. 1988;148:2013-2016.
28. Katsarkas A. Dizziness in aging - a retrospective study of 1194 cases. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1994;110:296-301.
29. Altman DG. Confidence intervals [Appendix]. In: Sackett DL, Richardson WS, Rosenberg WMC, Haynes RB, eds. Evidence-Based Medicine: How To Practice and Teach EBM. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 1997.
30. Hanley JA, Lippman-Hand A. If nothing goes wrong, is everything all right? interpreting zero numerators. JAMA. 1983;249:1743-1745.
31. Newman TB. If almost nothing goes wrong, is almost everything all right? interpreting small numerators. JAMA. 1995;274:1013.
32. Glasziou P, Guyatt GH, Dans AL, Dans LF, Straus SE, Sackett DL. Applying the results of trials and systematic reviews to individual patients [editorial]. ACP Journal Club. November-December 1998;129:A15-A16.
33. Petersdorf RG, Beeson PB. Fever of unexplained origin: report on 100 cases. Medicine. 1961;40:1-30.
34. Larson EB, Featherstone HJ, Petersdorf RG. Fever of undetermined origin diagnosis and follow-up of 105 cases, 1970-1980. Medicine. 1982;61:269-292.
35. Knockaert DC, Vanneste LJ, Vanneste SB, Bobbaers HJ. Fever of unknown origin in the 1980s. Arch Intern Med. 1992;152:51-55.