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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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Diagnostic difficulty and error in primary care--a systematic review.

TL;DR: Misdiagnosis in primary care covers a wide range of conditions that may be related in the manner in which they present and the challenge is to identify ways of supporting the diagnostic process in potentially difficult presentations.
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Frameworks for learner assessment in medicine: AMEE Guide No. 78

TL;DR: This AMEE Guide makes a distinction between analytic, synthetic, and developmental frameworks, to enable educators to determine to what extent trainees are ready for advancement, that is, whether the desired competence has been attained.
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Contextual effects in the interpretations of probability words: Perceived base rate and severity of events.

TL;DR: The authors found evidence for strong context effects that are not explained by either of these 2 variables and discussed the implications of these results for the use of verbal probability statements in the communication of probability information.
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Script concordance testing: a review of published validity evidence.

TL;DR: In this article, a structured validity argument for the interpretation of test scores derived through use of the script concordance method was developed, and the validity of inferences based on SCT scores has not been rigorously established.
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The Effects of Task Size and Similarity on the Decision Behavior of Bank Loan Officers

TL;DR: In this paper, two task characteristics task size, and similarity of loan profiles describing alternatives were varied in a bank loan decision context, and the effect that changes in task characteristics had on loan officers' decision strategies.