Are standard diagnostic test characteristics sufficient for the assessment of continual patient monitoring?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 225-234

  Chen, Liangyou ^a   Reisner, Andrew T ^a,b   Chen, Xiaoxiao ^a   Gribok, Andrei ^a   Reifman, Jaques ^a  

^a MCMR AT   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

continual patient monitoring; decision support algorithm; physiological data; sequential probability ratio test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROBABILITY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84874486621     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X12451059     Document Type: Article

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