Early diagnostic suggestions improve accuracy of family physicians: A randomized controlled trial in Greece

Family Practice

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 323-328

  Kostopoulou, Olga ^a   Lionis, Christos ^b   Angelaki, Agapi ^b   Ayis, Salma ^a   Durbaba, Stevo ^a   Delaney, Brendan C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision making; Decision support systems; Diagnosis; Diagnostic error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GREECE; GREEK (PEOPLE); HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GREAT BRITAIN; INTERNET; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GREECE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84930788305     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmv012     Document Type: Article

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