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The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

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Understanding Imperfect Diagnostic Standards and Clinical Decision Tools

This chapter explores the limitations of diagnostic tests, particularly MRIs and CT scans, in accurately identifying patient conditions due to misclassifications. It also discusses the effectiveness of clinical decision tools in addressing these shortcomings and the challenges of ruling out occult fractures.

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