Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 391-397 , March 1998

Clinical Utility of Likelihood Ratios

Received 18 April 1997 ,Revised 25 August 1997 ,Accepted 8 September 1997.

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    Schematic of threshold approach of diagnostic testing, developed by Pauker and Kassirer.1

    Schematic of threshold approach of diagnostic testing, developed by Pauker and Kassirer.1

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    Nonogram for use of LRs to convert pretest probabilities (right vertical axis) into posttest probabilities (left vertical axis).

    Nonogram for use of LRs to convert pretest probabilities (right vertical axis) into posttest probabilities (left vertical axis).

☆ From the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Medicine, Epidemiology, and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

☆☆ Address for reprints: E John Gallagher, MD, Emergency Department, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, 718-920-7459, Fax 718-798-6084, E-mail jgallagh@montefiore.org

★ Reprint no. 47/1/87765

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 391-397 , March 1998

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