The role of likelihood ratio in clinical diagnosis: Applicability in the setting of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-89

  Sierra, Fernando ^a   Torres, Diana ^b   Cárdenas, Andrés ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ   (Colombia)

^b Social Security Institute   (Colombia)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERITONITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 11844269944     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-3565(04)00600-7     Document Type: Article

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