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- Title
Do physicians attend to base rates? Prevalence data and statistical discrimination in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease.
- Authors
Maserejian, Nancy N; Lutfey, Karen E; McKinlay, John B
- Abstract
To examine whether physicians attend to gender prevalence data in diagnostic decision making for coronary heart disease (CHD) and to test the hypothesis that previously reported gender differences in CHD diagnostic certainty are due to discrimination arising from reliance on prevalence data ("statistical discrimination").
- Publication
Health services research, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 6, p1933
- ISSN
1475-6773
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01022.x