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Is it time to move beyond errors in clinical reasoning and discuss accuracy?

Wood TJ. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2014;19:403-407.

Highlighting how heuristics can both increase and reduce risk of diagnostic error, this commentary applies a set of recommended criteria to examine its usefulness in guiding research and augmenting understanding about factors that affect clinical reasoning and support accurate decision making.

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