Interval likelihood ratios: Another advantage for the evidence-based diagnostician

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 292-297

  Brown, Michael D ^a,c   Reeves, Mathew J ^b  

^a Emergency Medicine Grand Rapids Medical Education And Research Center   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SPECTRUM HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0042703882     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2003.274     Document Type: Article

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