title: Testing and treatment disease thresholds.
abstract: This article discusses the testing and treating disease thresholds. How certain does a physician have to be about the diagnosis? When is a disease so unlikely that it can be ignored? These kinds of questions are explored using threshold analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Jernigan
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000379:methods; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008954:Models, Biological; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011336:Probability; D013812:Therapeutics