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A scoring system for bruise patterns: a tool for identifying abuse
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- Published on: 10 June 2002
- Published on: 10 June 2002Problems with Scoring BruisesShow More
Dear Editor,
We write to draw attention to two problems with the recent study on a scoring system for bruising by Dunstan et al. [1].
Firstly, the authors did not publish confidence intervals for the Likelihood Ratios (LRs) derived from different score threshold values (Table 3), thereby not allowing readers to judge whether the Likelihood Ratios are statistically, let alone clinically, significa...
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