"What, diagnosis?" Between Bayes and biases

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2012, Pages 173-179

  Sbrojavacca, Rodolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bias; Decision threshold; Diagnosis; Likelihood ratios; Prevalence; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867728624     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-012-0823-8     Document Type: Article

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