Clinical reasoning: The relative contribution of identification, interpretation and hypothesis errors to misdiagnosis

Medical Teacher

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 621-625

  Groves, Michelle ^a   O'Rourke, Peter ^a   Alexander, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EXPERIENCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; THINKING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; QUEENSLAND; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; THINKING;

EID: 0347286740     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590310001605688     Document Type: Article

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