Believing is seeing: The influence of a diagnostic hypothesis on the interpretation of clinical features

Academic Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Leblanc, Vicki R ^a   Brooks, Lee R ^a   Norman, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0036794130     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200210001-00022     Document Type: Article

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