How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability.

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  New England Journal of Medicine

• Publication date

  1986-09-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1056/NEJM198609183151206PMID 3748081
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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