What determines diagnostic resource consumption in emergency medicine: patients, physicians or context?

Wolf E Hautz Thomas Christian SauterStephanie C HautzJuliane E KämmerStefan K SchauberTanja BirrenbachAristomenis K ExadaktylosStephanie StockMartin Müller

Published in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2020)

Diagnostic resource consumption in the ED is heavily affected by physicians' situational confidence. Whether we should aim at altering physician confidence ultimately depends on its calibration with accuracy.

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