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Experienced physician descriptions of intuition in clinical reasoning: a typology

Abstract

Background Diagnostic intuition is a rapid, non-analytic, unconscious mode of reasoning. A small body of evidence points to the ubiquity of intuition, and its usefulness in generating diagnostic hypotheses and ascertaining severity of illness. Little is known about how experienced physicians understand this phenomenon, and how they work with it in clinical practice. Methods Descriptions of how experienced physicians perceive their use of …

Authors

Vanstone M; Monteiro S; Colvin E; Norman G; Sherbino J; Sibbald M; Dore K; Peters A

Journal

Diagnosis, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 259–268

Publisher

De Gruyter

Publication Date

September 1, 2019

DOI

10.1515/dx-2018-0069

ISSN

2194-8011