Cognitive diagnostic error in internal medicine

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 525-529

  Van Den Berge, Kees ^a   Mamede, Sílvia ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analytical reasoning; Clinical reasoning; Cognitive diagnostic error; Decision making; Diagnostic error; Non analytical reasoning

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEMORY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; REVIEW;

ANALYTICAL REASONING; CLINICAL REASONING; COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DECISION-MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; NON-ANALYTICAL REASONING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84883558737     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2013.03.006     Document Type: Review

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