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Context matters: toward a multilevel perspective on context in clinical reasoning and error.
June 21, 2023
Choi JJ, Durning SJ. Diagnosis (Berl). 2023;10(2):89-95.
Context (e.g., patient characteristics, setting) can influence clinical reasoning and increase the risk for diagnostic errors. This article explores the ways in which individual-, team-, and system-level contextual factors impact reasoning, clinician performance and risk of error. The authors propose a multilevel framework to better understand how contextual factors impact clinical reasoning.
