Replacing Hindsight With Insight: Toward Better Understanding of Diagnostic Failures

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 206-209

  Wears, Robert L ^a   Nemeth, Christopher P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AWARENESS; COGNITION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33846373345     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.08.027     Document Type: Editorial

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