2016 Diagnostic Emergency Room Hospital 
REBEL EM
MARCH 9, 2023
However, evaluating and managing patients with acute alcohol intoxication in the emergency department can be challenging. Patients may be agitated or altered, hindering their initial evaluation and diagnostic workup. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2016 Feb 4;65:242-51. 2018 Mar;71(3):279-288. Acta Psychiatr Scand.
Ben White
JUNE 30, 2023
It should be a very simple problem for professionals who rely on diagnostic tests for a living: in a sample of 10,000 people, 10 have the disease and get a true positive result; 5 percent, or 500, will get a false positive; out of 510 people who test positive, only 10, or 1.96 The most common answer was 95 percent.
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