TY  - JOUR
T1  - LImitations in the use of qualitative terms to inform diagnoses
AU  - Foppa M, Schneider de Araujo B, Macari A, Reichert R, Goldim J
Y1  - 2011/07/25
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.307
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1291
EP  - 1292
VL  - 171
IS  - 14
N2  - 
The use of qualitative terms to describe the probability of disease is a potential source of misunderstanding and inaccuracy,1- 6 and the use of probabilities has been a main supportive tool to deal with uncertainty in evidence-based diagnosis. Considering this, we have investigated how patients, medical students, and physicians quantify in probabilities the meaning of common terms used to indicate the presence of a disease.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.307
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.307
ER  -