What makes diagnosis hard?

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2009, Pages 19-25

  Wears, Robert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Hindsight bias; Joint cognitive systems; Mis diagnosis; Patient safety; Sense making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; UNCERTAINTY;

COGNITION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349140875     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-009-9181-3     Document Type: Article

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