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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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Do Online Information Retrieval Systems Help Experienced Clinicians Answer Clinical Questions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of clinicians' use of an online information retrieval system on their performance in answering clinical questions and find that the use of such a system resulted in a 21% improvement in clinicians' answers, from 29% (95% confidence interval [CI] 25.4-32.6) correct pre-to 50% ( 95% CI 46.0-54.0) post-system use.
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Development of Visual Diagnostic Expertise in Pathology: An Information-processing Study

TL;DR: Standard methods of information-processing and cognitive science were used to study diagnostic processes of 28 novices, intermediates, and experts to provide the basis for an empirical cognitive model of competence for the complex tasks of microscopic pathology diagnosis.
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Design of a Cooperative Problem-Solving System for En-Route Flight Planning: An Empirical Evaluation

TL;DR: This study evaluates the impact of alternative design concepts on the performance of 30 airline pilots interacting with a cooperative system designed to support en-route flight planning and develops recommendations for guiding the design of cooperative systems.
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Critical care nurses’ decision-making activities in the natural clinical setting

TL;DR: This article reports on observation of 18 nurses in urban and rural based critical care settings to observe and describe the decision-making activities of critical care nurses within natural clinical settings and indicated three main categories of decisions.