An Educational Intervention for Contextualizing Patient Care and Medical Students' Abilities to Probe for Contextual Issues in Simulated Patients | Zendy

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An Educational Intervention for Contextualizing Patient Care and Medical Students' Abilities to Probe for Contextual Issues in Simulated Patients

Author(s) -

Alan Schwartz,

Saul J. Weiner,

Ilene Harris,

Amy Binns–Calvey

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

jama

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688

H-Index - 680

eISSN - 1538-3598

pISSN - 0098-7484

DOI - 10.1001/jama.2010.1297

Subject(s) - contextualization , medicine , context (archaeology) , confidence interval , intervention (counseling) , randomized controlled trial , simulated patient , family medicine , physical therapy , medical education , nursing , paleontology , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , biology , programming language

A contextual error occurs when a physician does not identify elements of a patient's environment or behavior, such as access to care, that must be addressed to appropriately plan care. Research has demonstrated that contextual errors can be identified using standardized patients.

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