Accepting diagnostic suggestions by residents: a potential cause of diagnostic error in medicine

Kees van den Berge1, Silvia Mamede, Tamara van Gog

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. c.vandenberge@erasmusmc.nl

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