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CHEMICAL PROFILES AND CLINICAL DIAGNOSES
Author(s) -
DURBRIDGE TIMOTHY C.,
DUNCAN BRUCE M.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1975.tb111399.x
Subject(s) - medical diagnosis , profiling (computer programming) , medicine , pathology , computer science , operating system
Sixteen thousand initial biochemical profiles, together with final clinical diagnoses, were reviewed. The majority of profiles were found to be compatible with a very wide range of diagnoses. Routine profiling is weak strategy if the aim is to reach a clinical diagnosis.