Teaching Bayesian analysis to Emergency Medicine residents

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 437-440

  Grant, David C ^a   Keim, Samuel M ^a   Telfer, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' Theorem; EBM; education, medical; evidence based medicine; teaching

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NOMOGRAM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BAYES THEOREM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749514576     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.04.015     Document Type: Article

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