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Base-Rate Error in the Interpretation of Immunohistochemistry英文文献资料
SAGE-HindawiAccesstoResearch
PathologyResearchInternational
Volume2011,ArticleID636495,4pages
doi:10.4061/2011/636495
ClinicalStudy
Base-RateErrorintheInterpretationofImmunohistochemistry
MalcolmGalloway
DepartmentofCellularPathology,RoyalFreeHospital,RoyalFreeHampsteadNHSTrust,PondStreet,Hampstead,London,
NW32QG,UK
CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoMalcolmGalloway,malcolm.galloway@
Received10February2011;Revised21March2011;Accepted23March2011
AcademicEditor:PabloA.Bejarano
Copyright?2011MalcolmGalloway.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,
whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited.
Failuretoappreciatetheimportanceofthefrequencyofadisorderintheappropriatepopulation(thebaserate)mayleadtothe
misinterpretationofthediagnosticsigni?canceofunexpectedtestresults(unexpectedtestresultde?nedinthiscontextasatest
resultthatispositiveinahigherproportionofcasesofanalternativediagnosisthaninthediagnosisconsideredmostlikelybefore
thetest).Thisstudyaimedtodeterminewhetherpathologistsarevulnerabletothiserror.Pathologistswereaskedtoestimatethe
probabilityoftumourBinascenarioinwhich,priortotheimmunostainingresult,anexperiencedpathologistconsidersthereto
bea99%chancethatthepatienthastumourAanda1%chancethattheyhavetumourB.AntibodyXispositivein80%ofcases
oftumourBandnegativein90%ofcasesoftumourAandispositiveinthecasedescribedinthescenario.Theestimatesmade
byconsultantpathologistsrangedfrom0to100%(mean29.7%).TheBayesiananswerwouldbe7.5%.These?ndingssuggest
thatbase-rateerrormayleadsomepathologiststooverestimatetheimplicationsforthelikelihoodofadiagnosisinthelightofan
unexpectedimmunohistochemicalresult.
1.Introduction
theprobabilityofapatienthavingbreastcancerwouldbeif
theyhada1%riskofthediseasepriortothemammogram
but had a malignant diagnosis on mammography. In this
scenario, the mathematically correct answer (by Bayesian
analysis) would by 7.7%. He reported that approximately
95%ofp
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