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Diagnostic reasoning in cardiovascular medicine
2022
The BMJ (British Medical Journal)
Research in cognitive psychology shows that expert clinicians make a medical diagnosis through a two step process of hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing. Experts generate a list of possible diagnoses quickly and intuitively, drawing on previous experience. Experts remember specific examples of various disease categories as exemplars, which enables rapid access to diagnostic possibilities and gives them an intuitive sense of the base rates of various diagnoses. After generating
doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-064389
pmid:34987062
fatcat:3py3feucujb3jmiulihlsee4sq