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Diagnostic errors in primary care: lessons learned.
Ely JW, Kaldjian LC, D'Alessandro DM. J Am Board Fam Med. 2012;25:87-97.

This study describes the types of diagnostic errors voluntarily reported by a sample of primary care physicians and enumerates the practice changes physicians expected to make based on their experiences with diagnostic error.
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