TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Diagnostic Tests A1 - Furukawa, Toshi A. A1 - Strauss, Sharon E. A1 - Bucher, Heiner C. A1 - Thomas, Agoritsas A1 - Guyatt, Gordon A2 - Guyatt, Gordon A2 - Rennie, Drummond A2 - Meade, Maureen O. A2 - Cook, Deborah J. PY - 2015 T2 - Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3rd ed AB - In the previous 2 chapters (Chapter 16, The Process of Diagnosis, and Chapter 17, Differential Diagnosis), we explained the process of diagnosis, the way diagnostic test results move clinicians across the test threshold and the therapeutic threshold, and how to use studies to help obtain an accurate pretest probability. In this chapter, we explain how to use an article that addresses the ability of a diagnostic test to move clinicians toward the extremely high (ruling in) and extremely low (ruling out) posttest probabilities they seek. Later in this book, we explain how to use articles that integrate a number of test results into a clinical prediction rule (Chapter 19.4, Clinical Prediction Rules). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/04 UR - jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1183877151 ER -