title: Medicine's uncomfortable relationship with math: calculating positive predictive value.
authors.affiliation: Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts2Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Arjun K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Manrai
authors.affiliation: Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts3The Eli and Edythe L Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Gaurav
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bhatia
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Strymish
authors.affiliation: Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts2Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Isaac S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Kohane
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts5Merck Medical Information and Innovation, Merck and Company, Boston, Massachusetts6Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
authors.forename: Sachin H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Jain
mesh_terms: D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D013223:Statistics as Topic
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