The Rational Clinical Examination
David L. Simel, Drummond Rennie
Vertigo
David L. Simel, David A. Froehling, Richard Bedlack
Once the medical history confirms vertigo in a patient with dizziness, most affected patients...
Topics Discussed:
benign positional vertigo, criterion standard comparisons (diagnostic tests), dizziness, make the diagnosis, prior probability, vertigo
Excerpt:
"Once the medical history confirms vertigo in a patient with dizziness,
most affected patients will have a peripheral vestibular disorder (40%).
The prior probability of benign positional vertigo among dizzy patients
is 10%...."
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