Why verifying diagnostic decisions with a checklist can help: insights from eye tracking

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1053-1060

  Sibbald, Matthew ^a,c   de Bruin, Anique B H ^c   Yu, Eric ^b   van Merrienboer, Jeroen J G ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Checklists; Clinical reasoning; Cognitive load; ECG interpretation

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDUCATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ONTARIO; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES;

CARDIOLOGY; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; ONTARIO;

EID: 84941425329     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-015-9585-1     Document Type: Article

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