Background. Studying and understanding pathways to diagnosis and treatment is vital for
the development of successful interventions to encourage early detection, presentation, and …

Rationale Clinical reasoning lies at the heart of medical practice and has a long research
tradition. Nevertheless, research is scattered across diverse academic disciplines with …

The aim of this article is to improve the communication of the probabilistic flood forecasts
generated by hydrological ensemble prediction systems (HEPS) by understanding …

Background: Information distortion suggests that people change the evaluation of new
information to support an emerging belief. The present study was designed to measure the …

How do physicians solve diagnostic problems? What is known about the process of
diagnostic clinical reasoning? In this chapter we sketch our current understanding of …

Background Designers of computerised diagnostic support systems (CDSSs) expect
physicians to notice when they need advice and enter into the CDSS all information that they …

Background. First impressions are thought to exert a disproportionate influence on
subsequent judgments; however, their role in medical diagnosis has not been systematically …

Objective Routine primary care data may be used for the derivation of clinical prediction
rules and risk scores. We sought to measure the impact of a decision support system (DSS) …

A radiologist looks at an image of a mammogram, searching for visual cues indicating the
presence or absence of breast cancer. After inspecting the X-ray, the radiologist decides on …

Diagnostic errors remain an underemphasised and understudied area of patient safety
research. We briefly summarise the methods that have been used to conduct research on …