title: Popperian everyday diagnostics--the growth of diagnostic knowledge in the particular case.
abstract: In an earlier paper the Bayesian model for everyday diagnostics of disease in the particular patient and the Bayesian decision model was criticized. Here a Popperian model is applied and its presumptions and consequences are investigated. Abandoning calculable probabilities as Popper suggests in science, and substituting them with degrees of corroboration, is realistic.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Department, Central Hospital, Kristianstad, Sweden.
authors.forename: N E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Jonson
mesh_terms: D003662:Decision Theory; D003933:Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical