Comfort with uncertainty: reframing our conceptions of how clinicians navigate complex clinical situations.

Jonathan S. Ilgen; Kevin W. Eva; Anique de Bruin; David A. Cook; Glenn Regehr

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Comfort with uncertainty: reframing our conceptions of how clinicians navigate complex clinical situations.

February 13, 2019

Ilgen JS, Eva KW, de Bruin A, et al. Adv Health Sci Edu: Theory Pract. 2019;24(4):797-809.

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Uncertainty in complex care situations is a common experience for both trainees and experienced practitioners. This review explores the concept of comfort with uncertainty in medicine and suggests that individual awareness of uncertainty is required to respond to the condition as it occurs. The authors advocate for educational and research strategies to further manage uncertainty in health care.

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