Factors that influence General Practitioner diagnostic decision-making and a comparison with other stakeholders

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Factors that influence General Practitioner diagnostic decision-making and a comparison with other stakeholders

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Abstract Background An analysis of Accident Compensation Corporation claims shows “inconsistent and inadequate diagnoses” by health care providers. Diagnostic performance is a result of two independent parameters, namely discrimination (accuracy) and decision (bias). Bias is related to the medical practitioner’s perception of the costs and benefits of making one choice over another. Bias may be statistical, sociological, political, biological or psychological in nature. This study investigate...

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Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2006

Creator

Callaghan, Kathleen Suzanne Noëlle

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/1907

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Human Factors / Diagnostic decision-making / Error management / Values / Accident compensation / Medicine / Medical and Health Sciences / Medicine-General

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