Factors underlying suboptimal diagnostic performance in physicians under time pressure.

Dalal A. ALQahtani; Jerome I. Rotgans; Silvia Mamede; Moeber M. Mahzari; Ghassan A. Al-Ghamdi; Henk G. Schmidt

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Factors underlying suboptimal diagnostic performance in physicians under time pressure.

January 16, 2019

ALQahtani DA, Rotgans JI, Mamede S, et al. Med Educ. 2018;52(12):1288-1298.

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In this educational study, internal medicine resident physicians were randomized to solve standardized cases with and without time pressure. The time-pressured group performed worse, and they reported more stress and generated fewer possible diagnoses.

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