Published on in Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Oct-Dec

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/15358, first published .
A Bayesian Network Analysis of the Diagnostic Process and its Accuracy to Determine How Clinicians Estimate Cardiac Function in Critically Ill Patients: Prospective Observational Cohort Study

A Bayesian Network Analysis of the Diagnostic Process and its Accuracy to Determine How Clinicians Estimate Cardiac Function in Critically Ill Patients: Prospective Observational Cohort Study

A Bayesian Network Analysis of the Diagnostic Process and its Accuracy to Determine How Clinicians Estimate Cardiac Function in Critically Ill Patients: Prospective Observational Cohort Study

Thomas Kaufmann   1 * , MD ;   José Castela Forte   1, 2, 3, 4 * , BSc ;   Bart Hiemstra   1, 2 , MD, PhD ;   Marco A Wiering   4 , PhD ;   Marco Grzegorczyk   4 , PhD ;   Anne H Epema   1 , MD, PhD ;   Iwan C C van der Horst   2, 5 , MD, PhD ;   SICS Study Group   6

1 Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

2 Department of Critical Care, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

3 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

4 Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

5 Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

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*these authors contributed equally

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  • Thomas Kaufmann, MD
  • Department of Anesthesiology
  • University Medical Center Groningen
  • University of Groningen
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