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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test B. What Are the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?
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CLINICAL SCENARIO You are back where we put you in the previous article1on diagnostic tests in this series on how to use the medical literature: in the library studying an article that will guide you in interpreting ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) lung scans. Using the criteria in Table 1, you have decided that the Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Diagnosis (PIOPED) study2will provide you with valid information. Just then, another physician comes looking for an article to help with the interpretation of V/Q scanning. Her patient is a 28-year-old man whose acute onset of shortness of breath and vague chest pain began shortly after completing a 10-hour auto trip. He experienced several episodes of similar discomfort in the past, but none this severe, and is very apprehensive about his symptoms. After a normal physical examination, electrocardiogram and chest radiograph, and blood gas measurements that show a Pco2of
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- Authors
- Jaeschke, R.
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1994-03-02
- Volume
- 271
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 703
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W2151287133
- Cited by
- 2,209
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 85.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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