The Value of a Biomarker Should be Judged on What it Adds to the Clinical Assessment: Not the Area Under the Curve

Philipp Schuetz^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Medical University Department, Division of General Internal and Emergency Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland.
² Department of Clinical Research (DKF), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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Philipp Schuetz. Crit Care Med. 2024.

. 2024 Jan 1;52(1):e30-e31.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006035. Epub 2023 Dec 14.

Philipp Schuetz^{1

2}

¹ Medical University Department, Division of General Internal and Emergency Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland.
² Department of Clinical Research (DKF), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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