Exposure to media information about a disease can cause doctors to misdiagnose similar-looking clinical cases

Academic Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 285-291

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

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; REPETITION PRIMING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PHYSICIANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPETITION PRIMING;

EID: 84894103432     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000107     Document Type: Article

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