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The effect of physician bias in medical diagnosis
Author(s) -
Horvath William J.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830090404
Subject(s) - medical diagnosis , variation (astronomy) , psychology , medicine , pathology , astrophysics , physics
Medical diagnoses are often based on qualitative rather than quantitative criteria, which may show considerable variation among individual physicians. This paper proposes a method for quantitative evaluation of these variations, and discusses the larger problem of obtaining better diagnostic criteria for sickness and health.