The authors sought to explain regional differences in physicians' accuracies in diagnosing
pneumonia by prospectively studying emergency department patients at three sites and …

Certainty-Based Marking (CBM) involves asking students not only the answer to an objective
question, but also how certain they are that their answer is correct. In a mixed method design …

Objective. To investigate diagnostic accuracy in patient histories involving nonspecific
complaints and the extent to which characteristics of physicians and structural properties of …

Objective. The aim of this study was to explore and compare treatment decisions and the
influence of specific patient characteristics on asthma management in five European …

The case report that follows describes a situation the primary care physician might face: a
patient, referred to a specialist, comes back to the primary care physician with questions or …

Previous studies have identified disconcerting differences in transfusion practices among
physicians. This article investigates decisionmaking on transfusion by a medical school …

Objectives. The aim of this study is to analyze surgeons' decision strategies about the
optimal treatment for acute sigmoid resection for different patients. In particular, the authors …

Every day physicians make judgments about patient management and diagnosis based on
less than perfect information from many different sources. Judgment and decision-making …

Objective-To study general practitioners'(GP) clinical diagnoses of heart failure. Design-A
Clinical Judgement Analysis study. Setting-Primary health care. Subjects-Twenty-seven GPs …

• Clinical decisions to use life-sustaining technologies, such as tube feeding in seriously ill
patients, depend on many important factors. Using case simulations, we analyzed the …