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Using natural frequencies to improve diagnostic inferences
Academic Medicine · 1998 · Vol. 73(5) · pp. 538–40
Ulrich Hoffrage✉(Max Planck Society)Gerd Gigerenzer(Max Planck Society)
Abstract
Representing information in natural frequencies is a fast and effective way of facilitating diagnosis insight, which in turn helps physicians to better communicate risks to patients, and patients to better understand these risks.
Biomedical Text Mining and OntologiesClinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsData-Driven Disease SurveillanceNatural (archaeology)Test (biology)StatisticsDiagnostic testComputer scienceMedicineMathematicsPediatrics
MeSH terms
Bayes TheoremBreast NeoplasmsDiagnosisFalse Positive ReactionsHumansMammographyPredictive Value of TestsProbabilityRisk
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