Brief report: Beyond clinical experience: Features of data collection and interpretation that contribute to diagnostic accuracy

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1302-1305

  Nendaz, Mathieu R ^a,b   Gut, Anne M ^a   Perrier, Arnaud ^b   Louis Simonet, Martine ^b   Blondon Choa, Katherine ^b   Herrmann, François R ^b   Junod, Alain F ^b   Vu, Nu V ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical data collection; Clinical reasoning; Experience; Expertise; Internal medicine; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RESIDENT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 33750514166     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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