Medical concepts related to individual risk are better explained with "plausibility" rather than "probability"

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The concept of risk has pervaded medical literature in the last decades and has become a familiar topic, and the concept of probability, linked to binary logic approach, is commonly applied in epidemiology and clinical medicine. The...

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Main Author: Grossi Enzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-09-01
Series:BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2261/5/31