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The psychology of diagnostic error [PDF]

open access: yesExperimental Psychology (Russia), 2015
Diagnostic errors in medicine occur frequently and the consequences for the patient can be severe. Cognitive errors as well as system related errors contribute to the occurrence of diagnostic error, but it is generally accepted that cognitive errors are the main contributor.
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Exploring why European primary care physicians sometimes do not think of, or act on, a possible cancer diagnosis. A qualitative study

open access: yesBJGP Open, 2023
Background: While primary care physicians (PCPs) play a key role in cancer detection, they can find cancer diagnosis challenging, and some patients have considerable delays between presentation and onward referral.
Senada Hajdarevic   +27 more
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Pediatric Clinician Comfort Discussing Diagnostic Errors for Improving Patient Safety: A Survey

open access: yesPediatric Quality & Safety, 2020
Introduction: Meaningful conversations about diagnostic errors require safety cultures where clinicians are comfortable discussing errors openly. However, clinician comfort discussing diagnostic errors publicly and barriers to these discussions remain ...
Joseph A. Grubenhoff   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Diagnostic errors in psychiatry

open access: yesComprehensive Psychiatry, 1978
Abstract Although the importance of nosology has been derided as "pigeonholing" by some American psychiatrists, the science of diagnosis has lately enjoyed a renaissance. Actually, whether or not a psychiatrist possessed diagnostic acumen had little effect on the outcome of treatment until the past two decades, because so much of treatment was ...
J R, Morrison, T A, Flanagan
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Benign paroxysmal torticollis in infancy – diagnostic error possibility [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017
Background/Aim. Benign paroxysmal torticollis (BPT) is a rare paroxysmal dyskinesia characterized by attacks of head tilt alone or tilt accompanied by vomiting and ataxia, which may last hours to days.
Zlatanović Dragan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching Critical Thinking: A Case for Instruction in Cognitive Biases to Reduce Diagnostic Errors and Improve Patient Safety

open access: yesAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2019
Diagnostic errors contribute to as many as 70% of medical errors. Prevention of diagnostic errors is more complex than building safety checks into health care systems; it requires an understanding of critical thinking, of clinical reasoning, and of the ...
Celeste S. Royce   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Diagnostic errors and reflective practice in medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Background: Adverse effects of medical errors have received increasing attention. Diagnostic errors account for a substantial fraction of all medical errors, and strategies for their prevention have been explored. A crucial requirement for that is better
Mamede, S. (Silvia)   +2 more
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Diagnostic Errors in Interactive Telepathology

open access: yesAnalytical Cellular Pathology, 2000
Telepathology (TP) as a service in pathology at a distance is now widely used. It is integrated in the daily workflow of numerous pathologists. Meanwhile, in Germany 15 departments of pathology are using the telepathology technique for frozen section ...
G. Stauch, K. W. Schweppe, K. Kayser
doaj   +1 more source

TarTar: A Timed Automata Repair Tool

open access: yes, 2020
We present TarTar, an automatic repair analysis tool that, given a timed diagnostic trace (TDT) obtained during the model checking of a timed automaton model, suggests possible syntactic repairs of the analyzed model.
AE Dalsgaard   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Stellar Chemical Abundances: In Pursuit of the Highest Achievable Precision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The achievable level of precision on photospheric abundances of stars is a major limiting factor on investigations of exoplanet host star characteristics, the chemical histories of star clusters, and the evolution of the Milky Way and other galaxies ...
Asplund, M.   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

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