How do surgeons' probability estimates of operative mortality compare with a decision analytic model?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 107-120

  Timmermans, Danielle ^a   Kievit, Job ^a   Van Bockel, Hajo ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdominal aneurysms; Calibration; Medical decision making; Probability estimates

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MORTALITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGNOSIS; SURGERY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGNOSIS; SURGERY;

EID: 0030237571     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-6918(96)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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