Medical errors as a result of specialization

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 61-69

  Hashem, Ahmad ^a   Chi, Michelene T H ^b   Friedman, Charles P ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of expertise; Diagnostic errors; Medical errors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0141794325     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1532-0464(03)00057-1     Document Type: Article

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