'Noisy patients' - Can signal detection theory help?

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 306-316

  Oliver, Rupert ^a   Bjoertomt, Otto ^b   Greenwood, Richard ^c   Rothwell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COFFEE; CONSULTATION; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SLEEP; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THEORY-PRACTICE RELATIONSHIP; WORKING MEMORY;

ARTIFACTS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 44949196817     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0794     Document Type: Review

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