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Assessing diagnostic and screening tests: Part 2. How to use the research literature on diagnosis

R Gilbert et al. West J Med. 2001 Jul.

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In children with fever and petechiae, looking ill increases the likelihood of bacteremia…[John Radcliffe Hospital/SPL]

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Figure 2

The likelihood ratio nomogram (adapted from Fagan8)

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