Probability Error in Diagnosis: The Conjunction Fallacy Among Beginning Medical Students

Family Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 262-265

  Rao, Goutham ^a,b  

^a St Margaret Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMMON COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE; SYMPTOM; TEACHING; VIGNETTE;

ADULT; COMMON COLD; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; TEACHING;

EID: 66249108268     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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