ArticleThe Permanente journal2011
Improving diagnostic reasoning to improve patient safety.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- An Evaluation of the Use of Student Response Systems in Teaching Diagnostic Reasoning for Physicians.Journal of acute medicine · 2018Article
- Influence of perceived difficulty of cases on student osteopaths' diagnostic reasoning: a cross sectional study.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2017Article
- Factors associated with medical student clinical reasoning and evidence based medicine practice.International journal of medical education · 2015Article
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- The patient is in: patient involvement strategies for diagnostic error mitigation.BMJ quality & safety · 2013Review
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Abstract
Both clinicians and patients rely on an accurate diagnostic process to identify the correct illness and craft a treatment plan. Achieving improved diagnostic accuracy also fulfills organizational fiscal, safety, and legal objectives. It is frequently assumed that clinical experience and knowledge are sufficient to improve a clinician's diagnostic ability, but studies from fields where decision making and judgment are optimized suggest that additional effort beyond daily work is required for excellence. This article reviews the cognitive psychology of diagnostic reasoning and proposes steps that clinicians and health care systems can take to improve diagnostic accuracy.
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