The biasing effect of clinical history on physical examination diagnostic accuracy

Medical Education

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 827-834

  Sibbald, Matthew ^a,b   Cavalcanti, Rodrigo B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; TEACHING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TEACHING;

EID: 79960362386     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2011.03997.x     Document Type: Article

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