Clinical Decisions and Laboratory Use

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

1975 • 23,866 citations

The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.

1994 • 16,641 citations

An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis

1986 • 9,529 citations

Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability

1973 • 9,346 citations

Human Problem Solving.

1973 • 7,028 citations

On the psychology of prediction.

1973 • 6,028 citations

Basic objects in natural categories

1976 • 5,360 citations

Human Problem Solving

1972 • 5,155 citations

Perception in chess

1973 • 4,216 citations

Discriminant Analysis

1980 • 3,155 citations

Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty.

1969 • 1,953 citations

Thought and Choice in Chess

1978 • 1,898 citations

Comparison of Bayesian and regression approaches to the study of information processing in judgment

1971 • 1,820 citations

Behavioral Decision Theory

1977 • 1,727 citations

Problems of Spectrum and Bias in Evaluating the Efficacy of Diagnostic Tests

1978 • 1,699 citations

Behavioral Decision Theory: Processes of Judgement and Choice

1981 • 1,684 citations

Clinical decision analysis

2005 • 1,645 citations

Medical Problem Solving: An Analysis of Clinical Reasoning

1978 • 1,541 citations

Beyond Normality: The Predictive Value and Efficiency of Medical Diagnoses.

1977 • 1,416 citations

The Threshold Approach to Clinical Decision Making

1980 • 1,279 citations

Primer on Certain Elements of Medical Decision Making

1975 • 1,168 citations

Primary Hyperparathyroidism

1980 • 967 citations

Relative contributions of history-taking, physical examination, and laboratory investigation to diagnosis and management of medical outpatients.

1975 • 887 citations

Maximum-likelihood estimation of parameters of signal-detection theory and determination of confidence intervals—Rating-method data

1969 • 865 citations

Interpretation by Physicians of Clinical Laboratory Results

1978 • 738 citations

Effects of Drugs on Clinical Laboratory Tests

1972 • 686 citations

Separate sample logistic discrimination

1972 • 633 citations

Medical Records, Medical Education, and Patient Care

1975 • 496 citations

Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Surgery.

1978 • 491 citations

Therapeutic Decision Making: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

1975 • 486 citations

Introduction to Medical Decision Making.

1969 • 484 citations

Fallacy of the Five-Year Survival in Lung Cancer

1978 • 477 citations

SOME PRINCIPLES OF MEMORY SCHEMATA

1975 • 468 citations

Sociologic Influences on Decision-Making by Clinicians

1979 • 424 citations

Clinical Problem Solving: A Behavioral Analysis

1978 • 354 citations

Knowledge engineering for medical decision making: A review of computer-based clinical decision aids

1979 • 308 citations

A Trial of Two Strategies to Modify the Test-Ordering Behavior of Medical Residents

1980 • 297 citations

The knew-it-all-along effect.

1978 • 281 citations

Medical Technology — A Different View of the Contentious Debate over Costs

1979 • 275 citations

Rational Diagnosis and Treatment

1986 • 251 citations

Decision analysis and clinical judgment

1973 • 248 citations

Hypertension. A Policy Perspective.

1977 • 245 citations

Some aspects of the correspondence between content structure and cognitive structure in physics instruction.

1972 • 240 citations

Medical Problem Solving.

1978 • 232 citations

The formation of composite hypotheses in diagnostic problem solving: an exercise in synthetic reasoning

1977 • 218 citations

An Artificial Intelligence program to advise physicians regarding antimicrobial therapy

1973 • 211 citations

Expertise and Error in Diagnostic Reasoning*

1981 • 204 citations

Measures of Clinical Efficacy

1975 • 180 citations

Usefulness of Blood Levels of Antiepileptic Drugs

1974 • 173 citations

Use of the Laboratory in a Teaching Hospital

1971 • 169 citations

Costs of unnecessary tests.

1979 • 148 citations

Coronary Artery Surgery: The Use of Decision Analysis

1976 • 138 citations

Studies of Process-Outcome Correlations in Medical Care Evaluations

1979 • 136 citations

The principles of clinical decision making: an introduction to decision analysis.

1976 • 135 citations

The Course of Patients with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

1980 • 124 citations

Antibiotic Use at Duke University Medical Center

1977 • 123 citations

Determinants of medical care utilization: physicians' use of laboratory services.

1972 • 122 citations

Computer-based Audit to Detect and Correct Overutilization of Laboratory Tests

1977 • 117 citations

Asymptotically Efficient Solutions to the Classification Problem

1978 • 116 citations

The Decision to Biopsy, Treat, or Wait in Suspected Herpes Encephalitis

1980 • 113 citations

Continuing education for what?

1967 • 112 citations

An analysis of diagnostic reasoning. I. The domains and disorders of clinical macrobiology.

1973 • 111 citations

The Diagnostic (Problem Solving) Skill of the Neurologist

1972 • 104 citations

The Predictive Value of Serum Haptoglobin in Hemolytic Disease

1980 • 101 citations

The Swine-Influenza Decision

1976 • 99 citations

Clinical decision analysis by personal computer

1981 • 93 citations

To Be Complete

1979 • 92 citations

Continuing Medical Education — An Epidemiologic Evaluation

1970 • 92 citations

Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Edema: Conventional or Intensive Care?

1972 • 80 citations

Prenatal diagnosis: a directive approach to genetic counseling using decision analysis.

1977 • 72 citations

Why Do Physicians Order Laboratory Tests?

1980 • 68 citations

Variation Among Physicians in Use of Laboratory Tests: Relation to Quality of Care

1974 • 64 citations

Clinical decision analysis. The hazard of using additional data

1976 • 62 citations

Theory of Reference Values

1973 • 60 citations

Clinical Laboratories

1978 • 59 citations

Clinical application of decision analysis: A detailed illustration

1978 • 52 citations

Diagnosis. I. Symptom nonindependence in mathematical models for diagnosis

1975 • 50 citations

The Quality of Medical Care: Evaluation and Improvement

1977 • 49 citations

The Clinical Investigation and Management of Chest Pain in an Emergency Department

1977 • 47 citations

Measures of clinical efficacy. III. The value of the lung scan in the evaluation of young patients with pleuritic chest pain.

1976 • 40 citations

The amniocentesis decision: an explicit guide for parents.

1979 • 39 citations

PLATELET-MONOAMINE-OXIDASE ACTIVITY PREDICTS RESPONSE TO LITHIUM IN MANIC-DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS

1977 • 37 citations

EXPLAINING THE UNEXPECTED ABNORMAL RESULTS OF BIOCHEMICAL PROFILE INVESTIGATIONS

1974 • 36 citations

The technology of PROMIS

1979 • 34 citations

Category vs. item learning: Implications for categorization models

1978 • 34 citations

Knowledge Based Components of Expertise in Medical Diagnosis.

1981 • 34 citations

The Patient's Role in Assessing the Value of Diagnostic Tests

1979 • 30 citations

The medical problem solving process

1980 • 28 citations

Decision Analysis to Evaluate Lymphangiography in the Management of Patients with Hodgkin's Disease

1977 • 24 citations

Surgical decision making.

1983 • 16 citations

Medical Guidance and PROMIS

1979 • 14 citations

Explicit Criteria for Use of Laboratory Tests

1974 • 13 citations

Short-term prognostic index in acute myocardial infarction. Multivariate analysis by Cox model.

1979 • 12 citations

Utilization of a Hematology Laboratory in a Teaching Hospital

1973 • 12 citations

Use of Signal Detection Theory in Examining the Results of a Contrast Examination: A Case Study Using the Lymphangiogram

1977 • 12 citations

DESIGN OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN MEDICINE: RATIONALE AND PRINCIPLES FROM THE ANALYSIS OF PHYSICIAN EXPERTISE.

1979 • 11 citations

Notes on Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care

1975 • 9 citations

Methods of Clinical Examination: A Physiologic Approach.

1975 • 9 citations

Human Factors in Clinical Judgment: Discussion of Scriven’s ‘Clinical Judgment’

1979 • 9 citations

The early detection of disease by periodic examination.

1956 • 8 citations

Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology

1966 • 8 citations

Concepts for the Rational Selection of Assays to Be Used in Monitoring Therapeutic Drugs

1975 • 6 citations

Screening—A privilege not a right

1974 • 5 citations

Comparing medical audits

1978 • 3 citations

Review of The Diagnostic Interview 2nd ed.

1971 • 3 citations