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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

How well do health professionals interpret diagnostic information?

The most important finding of this systematic review is the lack of understanding of test accuracy measures by health professionals. Published in BMJ  Open, the results of the systematic review of the evidence on test interpretation found that, across multiple studies, clinicians do not accurately interpret common measures of test accuracy such as likelihood ratios.
 
Whiting PF, Davenport C, Jameson C, Burke M, Sterne JAC, Hyde C, et al
BMJ Open. 2015 [epub]. 

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