White coats and fingerprints: Diagnostic reasoning in medicine and investigative methods of fictional detectives

British Medical Journal

Volumn 331, Issue 7531, 2005, Pages 1491-1494

  Rapezzi, Claudio ^a,c   Ferrari, Roberto ^b   Branzi, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; KNOWLEDGE; LOGIC; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TROPICAL DISEASE;

DECISION MAKING; FORENSIC SCIENCES; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; OBSERVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 29544448691     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1491     Document Type: Article

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