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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test B. What Are the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?

Abstract

CLINICAL SCENARIO You are back where we put you in the previous article1 on diagnostic tests in this series on how to use the medical literature: in the library studying an article that will guide you in interpreting ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) lung scans. Using the criteria in Table 1, you have decided that the Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Diagnosis (PIOPED) study2 will provide you with valid information. Just then, another physician …

Authors

Jaeschke R; Guyatt GH; Sackett DL; Guyatt G; Bass E; Brill-Edwards P; Browman G; Cook D; Farkouh M; Gerstein H

Journal

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 271, No. 9, pp. 703–707

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

March 2, 1994

DOI

10.1001/jama.1994.03510330081039

ISSN

0098-7484