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11 Cards in this Set
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When treating with EBM, list the order in which one should practice:
Assign priorities to information Physician and patient preferences Assess what learned f/patient |
assess, assign, patient/physician prefs
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What are the three diagnosis for every disease?
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1. the one you can't afford to miss
2. the one that unifies what you've learned 3. the one that actually is |
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T/F: all findings should be unified into one diagnosis
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FALSE:
more than one disease process can exist at one time in the same person; chronic with acute, remission. |
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What factors does a physician bring into the decision-making process?
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age, experience, occasional fatigue, worry about malpractice litgationn
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What are the three of several ways to make a diagnosis?
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recognizing patterns
sampling universe using algorithms |
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Occam's Razor
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among competing hypothesis, favor the simplest one
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Saint's nontes
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A patient's signs and symptoms may be cause of more than one disease
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The ability of an observation to identify correctly those who have a disease
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sensitivity
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The ability of an observation to identify correctly those who do not have the disease
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specificity
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positive predictive value
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proportion of persons with an observation characteristic of a disease who have it (out of 100 observations, 95 times observation is consistent with ultimate diagnosis- positive predictive value = 95%)
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Bayes Formula
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judgement of probabilities implicit in diagnosis decision making
likelihood of diagnosis being related to findings depends on probability of those findings being associated with that diagnosis |
