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Integrating Evidence Into Clinical Diagnosis

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Evidence-Based Endocrinology

Part of the book series: Contemporary Endocrinology ((COE))

Abstract

In busy clinical practice, diagnosis is our daily bread. All day, every day, we confront patients’ predicaments in which both of us want to know what is the matter. Many diagnostic tests are already available to help us, with more being developed all the time. Increasingly, diagnostic tests are undergoing rigorous evaluations of their accuracy and usefulness, with the results published as clinical care research (1). How can the results of this clinical care research be incorporated into our diagnostic decision making? This chapter addresses this topic, by starting with some illustrative cases, considering different modes of diagnostic thought, and then examining how evidence can be integrated into clinical diagnosis.

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Richardson, W.S. (2006). Integrating Evidence Into Clinical Diagnosis. In: Montori, V.M. (eds) Evidence-Based Endocrinology. Contemporary Endocrinology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-008-9_6

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