TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Minué, Sergio
AU  - Bermúdez-Tamayo, Clara
AU  - Fernández Ajuria, Alberto
AU  - Martín-Martín, José Jesús
AU  - Benítez Hidalgo, Vivian
AU  - Melguizo, Miguel
AU  - Caro Martínez, Araceli
AU  - Orgaz, María José
AU  - Prados, Miguel Ángel
AU  - Díaz, José Enrique
AU  - Montoro, Rafael
PY  - 2014
SN  - 1471-2296
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32228
AB  - Background

Missed, delayed or incorrect diagnoses are considered to be diagnostic errors. The aim of this paper is to describe the methodology of a study to analyse cognitive aspects of the process by which primary care (PC) physicians diagnose...
AB  - Methods

Cohort study of new episodes of dyspnoea in patients receiving care from family physicians and residents at PC centres in Granada (Spain). With an initial expected diagnostic error rate of 20%, and a sampling error of 3%, 384 episodes of...
AB  - Discussion

This work sets out a new approach to studying the diagnostic decision-making process in PC, taking advantage of new technologies which allow immediate recording of the decision-making process.
LA  - eng
PB  - Biomed Central
KW  - Primary care
KW  - Diagnostic errors
KW  - Decision-making
TI  - Identification of factors associated with diagnostic error in primary care
DO  - 10.1186/1471-2296-15-92
ER  -