How Much Overtesting Is Needed to Safely Exclude a Diagnosis? A Different Perspective on Triage Testing Using Bayes' Theorem

• Jonne J. Sikkens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonne J. Sikkens, Djoeke G. Beekman

  * E-mail: j.sikkens@vumc.nl (JJS); y.smulders@vumc.nl (YMS)

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Djoeke G. Beekman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonne J. Sikkens, Djoeke G. Beekman

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Abel Thijs,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Patrick M. Bossuyt,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Yvo M. Smulders

  * E-mail: j.sikkens@vumc.nl (JJS); y.smulders@vumc.nl (YMS)

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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