Correlates of diagnostic accuracy in patients with nonspecific complaints.

Ralph Hertwig; Nathalie Meier; Christian Nickel; Pia-Cristina Zimmermann; Selina Ackermann; Jan K. Woike; Roland Bingisser

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Correlates of diagnostic accuracy in patients with nonspecific complaints.

May 10, 2013

Hertwig R, Meier N, Nickel C, et al. Med Decis Making. 2013;33(4):533-43.

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Clinicians' diagnoses of simulated clinical cases with nonspecific symptoms were fairly accurate, especially when items of the history were present that allowed physicians to use heuristics appropriately.

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