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External validation of a clinical decision rule: we need events in a population in order to rule them out!

Overview of attention for article published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2017
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Title
External validation of a clinical decision rule: we need events in a population in order to rule them out!
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13049-016-0346-9
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Authors

Yonathan Freund, Anne-Laure Philippon

Abstract

We respond to the Lorton et al. article on external validation of the PECARN study. With an event rate of only 0.6%, we believe that their study failed to confirm the safety of this rule. Such a low number of events should call for caution when interpreting the results of diagnostic tests.

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Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 50%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 17%
Other 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 67%
Social Sciences 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%
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#18,518,987
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#1,169
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#311,666
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#25
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