Patient safety and diagnostic error: tips for your next shift.

Doug Sinclair; Pat Croskerry

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Patient safety and diagnostic error: tips for your next shift.

February 3, 2010

Sinclair D, Croskerry P. Can Fam Physician. 2010;56(1):28-30.

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Through case examples, the authors illustrate potential pitfalls in clinical reasoning and provide a model for physicians to reduce diagnostic errors in the emergency department.

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