Limiting the playing field: Does restricting the number of possible diagnoses reduce errors due to diagnosis-specific feature identification?

Medical Education

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-24

  Leblanc, Vicki R ^a   Dore, Kelly ^b   Norman, Geoffrey R ^b   Brooks, Lee R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnostic techniques and procedures *standards; Education, medical undergraduate *standards; Electrocardiography *methods

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERKALEMIA; LEARNING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERICARDITIS; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARD;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0942301200     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2004.01730.x     Document Type: Article

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