INTERPRETATION BY PHYSICIANS OF CLINICAL LABORATORY RESULTS
INTERPRETATION BY PHYSICIANS OF CLINICAL LABORATORY RESULTS
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DOI：
10.1056/nejm197811022991808
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发表时间：
1978-01-01
影响因子：
158.5
通讯作者：
GRABOYS, TB
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作者：
CASSCELLS, W;SCHOENBERGER, A;GRABOYS, TB
随着临床实验室检查的数量和费用的持续加速增长，医生面临着理解和应对不断上涨的信息洪流的任务。我们进行了一个小的调查，以获得一些想法的医生如何做，事实上，解释实验室result.MethodsWe问20家官员，20个四年级的医学生和20名主治医生，选择在67个连续走廊相遇在四个哈佛医学院教学医院，以下问题：“如果一种检测患病率为1/1000的疾病的测试具有......的假阳性率。
AS both the number and cost of clinical laboratory tests continue to increase at an accelerating rate,1physicians are faced with the task of comprehending and acting on a rising flood tide of information. We conducted a small survey to obtain some idea of how physicians do, in fact, interpret a laboratory result.MethodsWe asked 20 house officers, 20 fourth-year medical students and 20 attending physicians, selected in 67 consecutive hallway encounters at four Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals, the following question: "If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 1/1000 has a false positive rate of . . .