Decision making under uncertainty US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Decision making under uncertainty Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Diagnosis of pneumonia is made by _____ and sputum & blood gram stain/culture
Answer: CXR
Flashcard 2: CMV can result in _____-megaly on head CT scans
Answer: ventriculo
Flashcard 3: The diagnosis for diabetes mellitus may be made using _____ which reflects average blood glucose over 3 prior months
Answer: HbA1c
Flashcard 4: Sleep apnea is diagnosed via _____, where a patient sleeps in a monitored setting and a number of related measurements are taken
Answer: polysomnography
Flashcard 5: In the diagnosis of Tuberculosis, the _____ has fewer false positives from BCG vaccination as opposed to a tuberculin test
Answer: Interferon-y release assay
Flashcard 6: The _____ blot *used to be* the confirmatory test for HIV after a positive ELISA
Answer: Western
Flashcard 7: tuberous sclerosis
Answer:
Extra: cutaneous angiofibromas (adenoma sebaceum), hypopigmented "ash leaf" spots, seizures, mental retardation, cortical and retinal hamartomas, renal cysts and angiomyolipomas, cardiac rhabdomyomas, astrocytomas
AD, but incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity TSC1/TSC2
Flashcard 8: What is the most common clinical application for an ELISA?
Answer: detection of antibodies in patient blood sample
Flashcard 9: accuracy (diagnostic testing)
Answer: the "trueness" of a test's results
Flashcard 10: precision (diagnostic testing)
Answer: consistency and reproducibility of a test's results
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