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Medical Problem Solving: An Analysis of Clinical Reasoning

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The article was published on 1978-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1600 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Model-based reasoning.

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How do financial analysts make decisions? A process model of the investment screening decision

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the decision making processes of professional financial analysts who are screening prospective investments, including the identification of the decision-making processes, the decision rules, and the types of knowledge that are required to perform the task.
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Determinants of Diagnostic Hypothesis Generation: Effects of Information, Base Rates, and Experience

TL;DR: Physicians' experience affected hypothesis generation solely by increasing the availability of similar cases, and the results are consistent with the use of similarity-based hypothesis generation processes that operate on memory for prior cases.
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Differences between novice and expert systems analysts: what do we know and what do we do?

TL;DR: Differences in the problem-solving approaches of novice and expert systems analysts during an information requirements task are examined, and current literature on creativity techniques as a strategy for strengthening system analysis skills is supported.
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Physician and medical student bias in evaluating diagnostic information.

TL;DR: Reanalysis of a previously published experiment, in which radiologists evaluated excretory urograms, shows that the radiologists' assessment of the likelihood of a tumor being present was inappropriately influenced by the importance of ruling the tumor out.
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The use of clinical simulations in assessment.

TL;DR: Simulation‐based testing methods have been developed to meet the need for assessment procedures that are both authentic and well‐structured, but authenticity alone never is a sufficient factor for validity.