The medical history taking and physical examination each contributed to 10% of self-reported errors by internal medicine and emergency medicine physicians. This combined rate of 20% is a little higher than a prior report of 10% (PMID: 16009864).
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Citation:
Schiff, G., Hasan, O., Kim, S., Abrams, R., Cosby, K., Lambert, B., Elstein, A., Hasler, S., Kabongo, M., Krosnjar, N., Odwazny, R., Wisniewski, M., & McNutt, R. (2009). Diagnostic Error in Medicine: Analysis of 583 Physician-Reported Errors Archives of Internal Medicine, 169 (20), 1881-1887 DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.333
