Clinical judgement and the medical profession

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 621-627

  Kienle, Gunver S ^a   Kiene, Helmut ^a  

^a Institut fur angewandte Erkenntnistheorie und medizinische Methodologie e V   (Germany)

Author keywords

art and science of medicine; causality assessment; clinical judgement; clinical research; Gestalt cognition; medical epistemology; professionalism in medicine; tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; EPISTEMOLOGY; HEALTH; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GENERAL PRACTICE; GESTALT THEORY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT CARE;

EID: 79961081172     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01560.x     Document Type: Article

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