The Threshold Approach to Clinical Decision Making
- 15 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 302 (20) , 1109-1117
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198005153022003
Abstract
The physician's estimate of the probability that a patient has a particular disease is a principal factor in the determination of whether to withhold treatment, obtain more data by testing, or treat without subjecting the patient to the risks of further diagnostic tests.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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