The sensitivity and specificity of clinical diagnostics during five decades. Toward an understanding of necessary fallibility.

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Published in JAMA on March 17, 1989

Authors

R E Anderson1, R B Hill, C R Key

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1: Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131.

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