A Probability Graph Describing the Predictive Value of a Highly Sensitive Diagnostic Test

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
AN increasing number of publications designed to introduce science into the art of medical decision making have recently appeared.1 2 3 4 Although medical schools will eventually teach the new discipline, the graduate physician in practice has little time to learn it even if he has the prerequisites. To remedy this problem, one group has suggested that scientific decision making in medicine might be made as "simple as looking up the correct prescription for a drug" by the use of standard decision tables or decision graphs1; it is to this end that the present discussion is directed.One very important decision that . . .

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit: