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The Clincal diagnosis is an art. History, symptoms, clinical exam and imaging are combined by the clinician into a series of probabilities for the many potential diagnoses. This integration aided by experience could theoretically be replaced by the calculation of the combined predictive values, with their margins of error and confidence limits, of each test for each potential diagnosis.
