How clinical features are presented matters to weaker diagnosticians: Language matters

Medical Education

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 775-785

  Eva, Kevin W ^a   Wood, Timothy J ^b   Riddle, Janet ^c   Touchie, Claire ^d   Bordage, Georges ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Medical Council of Canada   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77954740542     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03705.x     Document Type: Article

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