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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☆ 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

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

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