Diagnostic testing: an emergency medicine perspective Journal Articles

abstract

• ABSTRACT: Emergency physicians use diagnostic tests extensively, and the ability to order and interpret test results appropriately is a critical skill. An understanding of sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios, as well as an awareness of the importance of pre-test probability, is essential. The purpose of this article is to explain, in a straightforward and clinically applicable manner, the core concepts related to diagnostic testing.

authors

• Worster, Andrew
• Innes, Grant
• Abu-Laban, Riyad B

status

• published 

publication date

• September 2002

has subject area

• 1103 Clinical Sciences (FoR)
• Emergency & Critical Care Medicine (Science Metrix)

published in

• Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine  Journal

keywords

• 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
• 3202 Clinical Sciences
• 4 Detection, screening and diagnosis
• 4.2 Evaluation of markers and technologies
• Emergency Care
• Generic health relevance

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s1481803500007764

PubMed ID

• 17608981

start page

• 348

end page

• 354

volume

• 4

issue

• 05