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The diagnostic utility index
Author(s) -
PILOWSKY I.,
DURBRIDGE T. C.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1979.tb01202.x
Subject(s) - index (typography) , perfectionism (psychology) , disease , psychology , medicine , value (mathematics) , diagnostic accuracy , medical diagnosis , clinical psychology , pathology , computer science , statistics , radiology , mathematics , world wide web
Summary A method for quantifying the value placed on diagnostic accuracy is described. Named the Diagnostic Utility Index (DUI), it was completed by fifty subjects (including pathologists, physicians and medical students). Analysis of the responses reveals that attitudes to diagnostic perfectionism differ from one disease to another. It is suggested that the DUI may be useful in the clarifying of subjective factors which influence medical attitudes to the diagnosis and investigation of disease.