Inductive foraging: Improving the diagnostic yield of primary care consultations
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Inductive foraging: improving the diagnostic yield of primary care consultations.
BACKGROUND Physicians attempting to make a diagnosis arrive at specific hypotheses early in their encounter with patients. Further data are collected in the light of these early hypotheses. While this hypothetico-deductive model has been accepted as both a description of physicians' data gathering and a norm, little attention has been paid to the preceding stage of the consultation. HYPOTHESI...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of General Practice
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1381-4788,1751-1402
DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2013.805197