Open AccessDiagnostic Performance by Medical Students Working Individually or in Teams
Author(s) -
Wolf E. Hautz,
Juliane E. Kämmer,
Stefan K. Schauber,
Claudia Spies,
Wolfgang Gaissmaier
Publication year - 2015
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.2014.15770
Subject(s) - medicine , medical education , medline , law , political science
Diagnostic errors contribute substantially to preventable medical error.1 Cognitive error is among the leading causes and mostly results from faulty data synthesis.2 Furthermore, reflecting on their confidence does not prevent physicians from committing diagnostic errors.1 Diagnostic decisions usually are not made by individual physicians working alone. Our aim was to investigate the effect of working in pairs as opposed to alone on diagnostic performance.
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