Educational strategies to reduce diagnostic error: Can you teach this stuff?

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2009, Pages 63-69

  Graber, Mark L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic error; Education; Expertise; Health care quality; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; IN SERVICE TRAINING; METHODOLOGY; SAFETY;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; INSERVICE TRAINING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 73349106242     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-009-9178-y     Document Type: Article

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