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Assessing the likelihood of an important clinical outcome: new insights from a comparison of clinical and actuarial judgment.
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PURPOSE: To assess and rank the performance of different methods of predicting the probability of death following a specified surgical procedure. METHOD: Actuarial estimates of the probability of early mortality for 40 patients were derived from 2 sources: a large published surgical series and a smaller series from the center where surgery was performed. Surgeons and cardiologists also provided probability estimates for these patients. RESULTS: Estimates derived from the published literature...
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- Journal:
- Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 262-282
- Publication date:
- 2005-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1552-681X
- ISSN:
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0272-989X
- Source identifiers:
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450568
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- English
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pubs:450568
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- pubs:450568
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