Imagining the future of diagnostic performance feedback.

Benjamin I Rosner; Laura Zwaan; Andrew P.J Olson

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Imagining the future of diagnostic performance feedback.

April 12, 2023

Rosner BI, Zwaan L, Olson APJ. Diagnosis (Berl). 2023;10(1):31-37.

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Peer feedback is an emerging approach to improving clinicians’ diagnostic reasoning skills. The authors outline several barriers to diagnostic performance feedback and propose solutions to improve diagnostic performance.

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