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  1. Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Box 6998, 60680, Chicago, IL

    Paul S. Heckerling MD

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02596488.

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Heckerling, P.S. Confidence in diagnostic testing. J Gen Intern Med 3, 604–606 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02596109

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