The testing blog

If you’re interested in diagnosis and testing, I will try to make this worth your attention.

As a clinician and epidemiologist I’ve been intrigued by how we understand testing and diagnosis. Although taught using concepts like pretest probability, sensitivity and specificity, we don’t apply that probability-based approach to patient care. But that doesn’t mean we can’t.

I hope to explore what a probability-aware approach to medicine would look like and how we could be more scientific by understanding chance and uncertainty.

We will explore testing generally and growth of the field of diagnostic stewardship.

Similar to testing wisely, the perspective is on the clinical benefit or harms of tests for individual patients.

My goal is to review and share relevant content so others can find it. This will start with looking back at many older articles, videos, books, etc. and will likely become focused on new articles over time.

This blog may change or have guests or debates. Please let me know what you think by commenting or contacting me directly

-Dan