'Noisy patients'—can signal detection theory help?
Rupert Oliver*, Otto Bjoertomt, Richard Greenwood and John Rothwell
Correspondence *Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Email r.oliver@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Signal detection theory was developed during the Second World War as a means to improve the ability of radar operators to spot enemy bombers. In this article, Oliver et al. explain how an overworked neurologist might use signal detection theory in the clinic to sift out important information from the often bewildering array of visual, verbal and auditory cues that constitute a patient's history and examination.
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