Why do doctors make mistakes? A study of the role of salient distracting clinical features

Academic Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 114-120

  Mamede, Sílvia ^a   Van Gog, Tamara ^a   Van Den Berge, Kees ^b   Van Saase, Jan L C M ^b   Schmidt, Henk G ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84893686395     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000077     Document Type: Article

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