System-related factors contributing to diagnostic errors.

Satid Thammasitboon; Supat Thammasitboon; Geeta Singhal

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System-related factors contributing to diagnostic errors.

October 23, 2013

Thammasitboon S, Thammasitboon S, Singhal G. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2013;43(9):242-7.

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This review describes methods to address system and cognitive weaknesses in the diagnostic process.

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