Available but irrelevant: When and why information from memory hinders diagnostic reasoning

Medical Education

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 948-950

  de Bruin, Anique B H ^a,b   Camp, Gino ^b   van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77958615815     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03789.x     Document Type: Note

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