How family physicians come to suspect pulmonary embolism?
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
Background: The Wells rule is a tool to support physicians in their decisions regarding Pulmonary Embolism (PE). The rule includes a subjective element: 3 points are allocated to the physician’s assessment whether PE is more likely than an alternative diagnosis. The diagnostic process leading to the suspicion of PE is not well described in… read more
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Clinician’s gut feeling about dypnea and chest pain in primary care: a poster presentation
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Marie Barais, PhD student in Brest, presented her ongoing study into the significance of the sense of alarm in chest pain in primary care at the EGPRN conference in Kusadasi (Turkey) (See poster gut feeling dyspnea chest pain poster mb 2)
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The transculturality of ‘gut feelings’. Results from a French Delphi consensus survey
Friday, April 19th, 2013
To determine whether a consensus on ‘gut feelings’ in general practice in France could be obtained a Delphi consensus procedure has been used. The researchers took the Dutch initial statements as starting points. After three Delphi rounds, French GPs reached agreement on nine statements. Many similarities have been found between the Dutch and the French defining… read more
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Much more than first impressions, an invited commentary
Monday, March 11th, 2013
In this e-letter we discussed the article ‘Clinical intuition in family medicine: more than first impressions’ (Woolley A, Kostopoulou O, Ann Fam Med 2013;60-66). See http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/1/60.full/reply#annalsfm_el_25577
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Family physicians’ gut feelings are measurable: construct validation of a questionnaire
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
We succeeded to validate a short questionnaire measuring the presence of gut feelings in diagnostic reasoning. It enables quantitative research into the role of gut feelings and their diagnostic value in family physicians’ diagnostic reasoning.... read more
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Analytical and non-analytical reasoning in tutorial dialogues
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Erik Stolper presented in behalf of the Maastricht-Antwerp group the first results of a study ‘Analytical and non-analytical reasoning in tutorial dialogues and the use of knowledge’.... read more
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The linguistic validation of the Gut Feelings Questionnaire from English to Polish
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Slawek Czachowski and Agnieszka Sowinska presented the first results of the linguistic validation of the Gut Feelings Questionnaire (English to Polish). ... read more
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Luc Ciompi’s affect-logic
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Luc Ciompi’s affect-logic and the significance for GPs' diagnostic reasoning... read more
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Video clips about gut feelings, Dutch-language
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Three video clips with an Dutch language explanation about the diagnostic role of gut feelings in diagnostic reasoning of general practitioners (see https://www.gutfeelings.eu/video/).
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Thirteenth tip for teaching expertise in clinical reasoning
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
A letter to editor published in Medical Teacher: ‘Take your gut feelings seriously’. Increased awareness of gut feelings, fast feedback, structured reflection and specific experience may help student to learn when to trust gut feelings and when to slow down. http://informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.652709
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