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5. Clinical Disagreement
Author(s) -
Anthony Morton,
Abramson Michael
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb121372.x
Subject(s) - clinical judgement , judgement , clinical judgment , psychology , clinical practice , medical physics , medicine , cognitive psychology , epistemology , intensive care medicine , family medicine , philosophy
With clinical information it is frequently difficult or impossible to make objective measurements to prove that a particular finding is correct. In these circumstances, the agreement of experienced clinicians is the best guide to the accuracy of clinical findings. However, studies of clinical judgement usually show a distressingly high level of disagreement among clinicians. We examine why such disagreement is so common, how clinical disagreement can be measured and how clinicians can be trained so that they are able to agree on important findings.