Clinical Decisionmaking: Opening the Black Box of Cognitive Reasoning

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 713-719

  Sandhu, Harpartap ^a   Carpenter, Christopher ^b   Freeman, Kalev ^c   Nabors, Spencer G ^d   Olson, Anna ^e  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d King's County Hospital   (United States)

^e DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRITICAL THINKING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SKILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750935260     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.03.011     Document Type: Note

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