| Literature DB >> 12931335 |
Laura A Brannon1, Kimi L Carson.
Abstract
Nurses and student nurses read case descriptions and generated diagnoses for patients who differed on situational and behaviorial chactacteristics. Consistent with a representativeness heuristic, participants were less likely to attribute symptoms to physical illness when scenarios included extra-symptom patient characteristics. Results suggest that medical personnel implement prototypical, heuristic-based diagnostic procedures.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12931335 DOI: 10.1016/s0897-1897(03)00043-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Nurs Res ISSN: 0897-1897 Impact factor: 2.257