Diagnostic testing, pre- and post-test probabilities, and their use in clinical practice;Testes diagnósticos, probabilidades pré-teste e pós-teste e a sua utilização na prática clínica

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1187-1198

  Paulo, Sérgio ^a   Mendes, Susana ^a   Vizinho, Ricardo ^a   Vaz Carneiro, António ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Diagnostic tests; Disease probability; Evidence based cardiology; Positive and negative likelihood ratio; Post test probability; Pretest probability; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; NOMOGRAM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 8344281309     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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