Determining whether a patient is feeling better: Pitfalls from the science of human perception

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 900-906

  Redelmeier, Donald A ^a,b   Dickinson, Victoria M ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

eliciting the history; fallible judgment; human psychology; medical error; patient follow up; symptomatic changes

Indexed keywords

AVERSION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPREHENSION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HEART FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIMB PAIN; LUNG MECHANICS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NEGLECT; ODOR; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SELF CONTROL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TASTE; TIME; TOUCH; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 80051552609     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1655-3     Document Type: Review

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