Introduction to Clinical Measurement
Activity
Small Group Session
Small Group Session
Now that you have begun to learn clinical examination, you are making judgements about your clinical findings - is this blood pressure normal, can I believe my percussion findings, how useful is tactile vocal fremitus as a diagnostic test? We are constantly making measurements or
evaluating clinical examination manoeuvres on our patients; therefore we have to think critically about the measurements we are making and how we should interpret what we find.
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Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Apply simple metrics such as accuracy, precision, etc. to clinical examination manoeuvres.
- Explain the use of 2x2 tables, sensitivity, specificity and likelihood with diagnostic tests in the diagnostic pathway.
- Apply the concepts of inter-observer variation as a measure of the utility of a diagnostic test.
- Apply the measurement concepts learned in the session to clinical case scenarios.
Tags
Archived
Archived
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Discipline
Clinical epidemiology