Predictors of diagnostic accuracy and safe management in difficult diagnostic problems in family medicine

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 668-680

  Kostopoulou, Olga ^a   Oudhoff, Jurriaan ^a   Nath, Radhika ^a   Delaney, Brendan C ^a   Munro, Craig W ^a   Harries, Clare ^b   Holder, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Error; Experience; Family practice; Information gathering; Process tracing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY MEDICINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION; SAFETY;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENGLAND; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 52149102532     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X08319958     Document Type: Article

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