RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 1183877151
T1 Diagnostic Tests
T2 Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3rd ed
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179071-0
LK jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1183877151
RD 2024/04/19
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).