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Podcast: Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke
Episode: Episode 79. Investigations in Rheumatology with Dr Andrew Teichtahl
Description: In this episode we explore investigations in rheumatology-what is helpful and what is not?
A clinician faced with a patient complaining of myalgias and generalised rheumatic aches may be tempted to order a host of immunological and inflammatory tests whilst also assessing multiple other differential diagnoses that need considering. There are a host of serological tests available each with different degrees of sensitivity and specificity for rheumatological conditions, furthermore it is important to understand the sensitivity (ability to rule out condition) and specificity (ability to rule condition in) is applied to such tests. Fortunately, we had the opportunity...