Clinical problem-solving. A little math helps the medicine go down

N Engl J Med. 1999 Aug 5;341(6):435-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199908053410608.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antitubercular Agents / adverse effects
  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatigue / etiology
  • Fever / etiology*
  • Glucocorticoids / adverse effects
  • Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Isoniazid / adverse effects
  • Isoniazid / therapeutic use
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A / blood
  • Prednisone / adverse effects
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use
  • Radiography
  • Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / complications
  • Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy
  • Tuberculin Test
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
  • Isoniazid
  • Prednisone