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Evidence-Based Diagnosis

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ISBN-10: 0521714028

ISBN-13: 9780521714020

Edition: 2009

Authors: Thomas B. Newman, Michael A. Kohn

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Evidence-Based Diagnosis is a textbook about diagnostic, screening, and prognostic tests in clinical medicine. The authors' approach is based on many years of experience teaching physicians in a clinical research training program. Although requiring only a minimum of mathematics knowledge, the quantitative discussions in this book are deeper and more rigorous than in most introductory texts. The book includes numerous worked examples and 60 problems (with answers) based on real clinical situations and journal articles. The book will be helpful and accessible to anyone looking to select, develop, or market medical tests. Topics covered include: -The diagnostic process -Test reliability and…    
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Book details

List price: $83.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.92" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Michael A. Kohn is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, where he teaches clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine. He is also an emergency physician with more than 20 years of clinical experience, currently practicing at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, California.

Preface
Acknowledgments & Dedication
Abbreviations/Acronyms
Introduction: understanding diagnosis and diagnostic testing
Reliability and measurement error
Dichotomous tests
Multilevel and continuous tests
Critical appraisal of studies of diagnostic tests
Screening tests
Prognostic tests and studies
Multiple tests and multivariable decision rules
Quantifying treatment effects using randomized trials
Alternatives to randomized trials for estimating treatment effects
Understanding P-values and confidence intervals
Challenges for evidence-based diagnosis
Answers to problems
Index