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Understanding risk and uncertainty in veterinary care
By Florizoone, Koenraad·Published in The Veterinary record·2025·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Assessing and expressing risk and uncertainty in clinical practice.
Plain-English summary
In a recent discussion, a veterinarian named Koenraad Florizoone suggested that veterinary medicine could benefit from using Bayesian reasoning, which is a way of thinking about probabilities and uncertainties. This approach could help veterinarians better assess how certain they are about a diagnosis and decide whether more tests are needed. By adopting this method, vets could improve their decision-making and ultimately provide better care for pets.
Abstract
Koenraad Florizoone explains why veterinary medicine should introduce Bayesian reasoning in clinical practice for grading (un)certainty and pursuing further diagnostics.
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