Validating a vignette-based instrument to study physician decision making in trauma triage

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 242-252

  Mohan, Deepika ^a   Fischhoff, Baruch ^a,b   Farris, Coreen ^b,d   Switzer, Galen E ^a,c   Rosengart, Matthew R ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^a   Saul, Melissa ^a   Angus, Derek C ^a   Barnato, Amber E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

performance measures; psychometric scaling; survey methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; PSYCHOMETRIC/SCALING; SURVEY METHODS; VALIDATION STUDY;

PERFORMANCE MEASURES; PSYCHOMETRIC/SCALING; SURVEY METHODS;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84893841881     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X13508007     Document Type: Article

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