Appelbaum, Kenneth L.Bazemore, Patricia H.Tonkonogy, JosephAnanth, RajooShull, Stephen
Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging. A state hospital program for managing patients with dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, includes interventions such as modified diets, mealtime monitoring, and adjusting psychotropic...
Dentists are involved in diagnosing disease in every aspect of their clinical practice. A range of tests, systems, guides and equipment--which can be generally referred to as diagnostic procedures--are available to aid in diagnostic decision making. In this era of evidence-based dentistry, and given the increasing demand for diagnostic accuracy and...
When a clinician is planning to use a diagnostic test or procedure, it is important to establish the likelihood that an individual patient is affected by the condition or disease; this determination depends on predictions that are affected by various features of the diagnostic procedure. In this regard, sensitivity and specificity are limited becau...
This article, the third in a series, uses the tools described in the first 2 articles to examine some of the radiographic diagnostic procedures that are employed regularly in dental practice. With a general grounding in the meaning of terms such as sensitivity, specificity, thresholds, kappa coefficients, and predictive values, the reader should no...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of patients' preferences in the treatment of atrial fibrillation by using individualized decision analysis in which probability and utility assessments are combined into a decision tree. DESIGN: Observational study based on interviews with patients. SETTING: 8 general practices in Avon, England. PARTICIPANTS: 26...
Siegel, Randie.Moore, Steven R.McCormick, Kathleen Ann.states., of in united
"Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Office of the Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care"--Cover p. [2]. / "November 1994." / Includes bibliographical references. / Mode of access: Internet.