Live or computerized simulation of clinical encounters: Do clinicians work up patient cases differently?

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Nendaz, Mathieu R ^a,b   Ponte, Belen ^a   Gut, Anne M ^a   Perrier, Arnaud ^a,b   Louis Simonet, Martine ^a   Junod, Alain F ^a   Vu, Nu V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical encounters; Clinical reasoning; Clinicians; Computerized simulation; Live simulation; Patient cases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EPISODE OF CARE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33646820061     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230500236701     Document Type: Article

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