Clinical Reasoning Corner: Pre and Posttest Probability – Jack Penner
The Clinical Problem Solvers
OCTOBER 23, 2019
As you walk down to the ER, you’re already creating a list of possible diagnoses in your mind. This new framing of diagnostic likelihood is your posttest probability , or the probability of each diagnosis after initial diagnostic tests have returned. You may even pull up your schemas for pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea.
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