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What is occam's razor
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Do not consider more than 1 diagnosis unless you have to & among competing hypotheses favor the simplest one
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What is Hickam's dictum
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A patient can have as many diagnoses as he darn well wants
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Positive predictive value
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Proportion of persons with the characteristic of a disease who actually have it
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Negative predictive value
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Proportion of persons with an expected observation who ultimately prove not to have the expected condition
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Prohibited abbreviations
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U, IU, QD (etc), X.0, .X, MS
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