Do first opinions affect second opinions?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1265-1271

  Vashitz, Geva ^a   Pliskin, Joseph S ^a   Parmet, Yisrael ^a   Kosashvili, Yona ^b   Ifergane, Gal ^c   Wientroub, Shlomo ^d   Davidovitch, Nadav ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consultation; Diagnostic reasoning; Differential diagnosis; Health policy; Medical decision making; Neurology; Orthopedics; Second opinion; Surgery; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIRST MEDICAL OPINION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIST; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; PROGNOSIS; SECOND MEDICAL OPINION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84866904675     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-012-2056-y     Document Type: Article

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