Mind the Base Rate: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning

J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Sep;34(9):1941-1945. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05053-z. Epub 2019 Jul 3.
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Keywords: AIDS; base rate; chronic diarrhea; pulse fever dissociation; typhoid fever.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Clinical Decision-Making / methods*
  • Diarrhea / etiology
  • HIV Infections / complications
  • HIV Infections / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Liberia / ethnology
  • Male
  • Salmonella typhi / isolation & purification
  • Typhoid Fever / complications
  • Typhoid Fever / diagnosis*
  • Typhoid Fever / physiopathology