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Ruling a diagnosis in or out with “SpPIn” and “SnNOut”: a note of caution
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Dr X is back from her annual leave.Dr Y, the locum doctor, reports on the patients he saw during her absence, including a 40 year old teacher who had sprained her right ankle.Returning from a conference, she had stumbled while walking down the stairs with a heavy bag.Examination revealed a moderately swollen lateral right ankle.The patient was able to walk but was clearly in pain.Her breath smelt of alcohol.
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- Authors
- Pewsner, D., Battaglia, M., Minder, C., Marx, A., Bucher, H. C., & Egger, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Bern (CH)
- University Hospital of Basel (CH)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Egger, Matthias
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2004-07-22
- Volume
- 329
- Issue
- 7459
- Pages
- 209-213
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC487735
- OpenAlex
- W1997194058
- Cited by
- 196
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 6.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Family Practice › Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Orthopedics and Sports Medicine › Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Keywords
- diagnostic accuracy, ankle sprain, lateral ankle sprain, diagnostic test interpretation
- MeSH terms
- Diagnosis, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Humans, Orthopedics, Probability, Sensitivity and Specificity, Bias, Internet
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