Correlates of diagnostic accuracy in patients with nonspecific complaints

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 533-543

  Hertwig, Ralph ^a   Meier, Nathalie ^a   Nickel, Christian ^b   Zimmermann, Pia Cristina ^b   Ackermann, Selina ^b   Woike, Jan K ^a   Bingisser, Roland ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

diagnostic decision making; emergency department physicians; experience; family practitioners; internists; nonspecific complaints

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PHYSICIANS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY PRACTITIONERS.; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNISTS; MANPOWER; MEDICAL STAFF; NONSPECIFIC COMPLAINTS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWITZERLAND; UTILIZATION REVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY; UTILIZATION;

DIAGNOSTIC DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PHYSICIANS; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY PRACTITIONERS.; INTERNISTS; NONSPECIFIC COMPLAINTS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROBABILITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84877022304     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X12470975     Document Type: Article

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