Making the best use of medical librarians

Review article: A primer for clinical researchers in the emergency department: Part XI. Inertia before investigation: Pre‐test probability in emergency medicine

“…We will explore how PTP and test characteristics influence post‐test probability and management in each case. Through these examples, we will show that tests ordered without any clinical or demographic reference are at best unhelpful, and at worst potentially harmful to the patient and health system …”

Array CGH in routine prenatal diagnosis practice

“…Most medical decisions are based on a Bayesian process, which combines clinical findings and laboratory tests to make a diagnosis, where genetic tests should be considered as a means, not an end goal. It has been claimed that laboratory tests are decision‐support tools, not clinical decision‐replacement tools …”