Foundational Statistical Principles in Medical Research: Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value, and Negative Predictive Value
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6 Sensitivity , Specificity , and Predictive Value
Over the past decade, many clinicians have recognized th need to acquire an expanded clinical vocabulary and cot ceptual framework with which to interpret and act upo clinical information from the patient's history, the physic, examination, and the diagnostic laboratory . This expande vocabulary acknowledges the probabilistic nature of clinic events that occur consequent to diagnostic and thera...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicina
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1648-9144
DOI: 10.3390/medicina57050503