In an article entitled Diagnostic Accuracy of Fever as a Measure of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications (Heart and

In an article entitled €œDiagnostic Accuracy of Fever as a Measure of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications€ (Heart and Lung, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 61), J. Roberts and colleagues discuss using a fever of 38oC or higher as a diagnostic indicator of postoperative atelectasis (collapse of the lung) as evidenced by X-ray observation. For fever ‰¥ 38oC as the diagnostic test, the results for postoperative patients are

For the meaning of + and ˆ’, see Problem 26. Complete parts (a) through (f) from Problem 26.

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Condition Condition Present Absent Row Total Test Result f Test Result Column Total 72 82 154 37 79 116 109 161 270