physician intuition

Clinical significance

• intuition is the basis of empiric therapy
• intuition of physicians in predicting which children in ICU have infections is good
  • discriminative ability 0.88
  • ability to predict positive blood cultures 0.77 (1.0 is perfect)
• intuition that somethingis wrong with a child despite a negative assessment, the increases the likelihood of serious illness 26-fold

More general terms

• intuition