Survey: Lung/Heart In an article titled Diagnostic accuracy of fever as a measure of postoperative pulmonary complications

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Survey: Lung/Heart In an article titled “Diagnostic accuracy of fever as a measure of postoperative pulmonary complications” (Heart Lung, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 61), J. Roberts and colleagues discuss using a fever of 388C or higher as a diagnostic indicator of postoperative atelectasis (collapse of the lung) as evidenced by x-ray observation. For fever $388C as the diagnostic test, the results for postoperative patients are Condition Present Condition Absent Row Total Test Result + 72 37 109 Test Result − 82 79 161 Column Total 154 116 270.

For the meaning of + and −, see Problem 35.
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(f) from Problem 35.AppendixLO1

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Understandable Statistics Concepts And Methods

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Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

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