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Risk Prediction Versus Diagnosis: Preserving Clinical Nuance in a Binary World
TO THE EDITOR:
Vickers and colleagues (1) discuss an interesting premise in their article: Physicians should consider moving away from the practice of diagnosis and toward the incorporation of risk stratification in their day-to-day practice. This raises several practical issues. The first is that the diagnoses that were discussed are all special cases in which the diagnosis had been defined by test results. Although many common diagnoses may fit into this …
