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Author(s) -
Norcini John
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03542.x
Subject(s) - citation , power (physics) , library science , computer science , medicine , psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
Clearly a diligent, comprehensive, detailed but readable analysis of the literature surrounding diagnostic and management errors and clinical reasoning is still a goal worth aiming for, but Norman and Eva have made an impressive start. This is not an ‘all or none’ situation; diagnostic reasoning is only one part of the equation. What the clinician does with the information in terms of management, including making a personal recognition of the possibility of error and ensuring the presence of adequate safety netting in case of error, is almost as important. There has been a great deal of research undertaken in the area and an objective analysis of the whole might be considerably more informative than a sum of its parts, albeit that it requires devilish perseverance. REFERENCES