Preliminary data of the CORap study (Gut Feelings Prognostic Value in Primary Care)
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Abstract accepted for poster presentation at the EGPRN meeting (Tampere, Finland, 2019) Bernardino Oliva-Fanlo, Sebastià March, David Medina, Gaspar Tamborero, MarÃa MartÃn-Rabadán, Erik Stolper, Magdalena Esteva. Background. GPs have Gut Feelings (GF) during patient visits: a sense of reassurance (SR) when the GP feels that everything about a patient fits or a sense of alarm… read more
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GPs’ gut feelings sense of alarm is valuable in dyspnoea and chest pain
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Abstract, accepted for oral presentation at the EGPRN conference (Tampere, Finland, 2019) by Marie Barais. Background. Dyspnoea and chest pain are symptoms shared with multiple pathologies ranging from the benign to life-threatening diseases. Gut feelings such as the sense of alarm and the sense of reassurance play a substantial role in the diagnostic reasoning process… read more
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Role of intuitive knowledge in the diagnostic reasoning of hospital specialists: a focus group study
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
Abstract Background and objective Intuition is an important part of human decision-making and can be explained by the dual-process theory where analytical and non-analytical reasoning processes continually interact. These processes can also be identified in physicians’ diagnostic reasoning. The valuable role of intuition, including gut feelings, has been shown among general practitioners and nurses, but… read more
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Gut feelings in the diagnostic reasoning process; the role of uncertainty
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Abstract What role does uncertainty play in the doctor’s diagnostic reasoning process? Would it not be better to avoid uncertainty as much as possible? In this article we answer this question from an epistemological perspective. Doctors build up relevant, situational knowledge during the diagnostic process through listening, observation and interpretation during their contact with the… read more
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Gut Feelings Questionnaire in daily practice: a feasibility study using a mixed-methods approach in three European countries
Friday, November 9th, 2018
Abstract Objectives The validated Gut Feelings Questionnaire (GFQ) is a 10-item questionnaire based on the definitions of the sense of alarm and the sense of reassurance. The purpose of the GFQ is to determine the presence or absence of gut feelings in the diagnostic reasoning of general practitioners (GPs). The aim was to test the… read more
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Marie Barais defended her PhD about the sense of alarm in primary care, in Antwerp (Belgium)
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Marie Barais, a French GP (Brest), defended successfully her PhD entitled ‘The sense of alarm as a tool preventing error in primary care’, in Antwerp (2018/10/17). In the first part of this thesis, she gives  account for the translation of the gut feelings questionnaire (GFQ) in three European languages. She also reports the results of a thoroughly performed feasibility… read more
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Gooske Douw defended her PhD Just Worry, in Nijmegen (NL).
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Gooske Douw, a nurse, defended succesfully her thesis ‘Just Worry. Exploring triggers used by nurses to identify surgical patients at risk for clinical deterioration’, in Nijmegen (2018/10/4). From literature, it is known that nurses may have a sense of alarm earlier that vital parameters will deviate. The aim of the thesis was to explore nurses’… read more
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Cross-cultural translation and validation of the ‘gut feelings’ questionnaire into Spanish and Catalan
Sunday, July 8th, 2018
The Gut Feelings Questionnaire is available in Spanish and Catalan language. Read the publication in EJGP. Or look up all translations on https://www.gutfeelings.eu/questionnaire/ Abstract Background: The gut feelings questionnaire (GFQ) is the only tool developed to assess the presence of a ‘sense of alarm’ or a ‘sense of reassurance’ in the diagnostic process of general practitioners… read more
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Report COGITA meeting Göttingen 2018
Thursday, May 24th, 2018
May 17-18th Future of COGITA: The last years, several times we discussed the future of the COGITA network. It is 10 yrs ago that the network has been established, in Budapest. Our European network becomes every year larger and on the annual meetings members present results of nice studies. We have done a lot of… read more
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Evidence-based decision making: How to integrate expertise, evidence and patients’ preferences in clinical decisions?
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
In the beginning of the 1990s evidence-based medicine was introduced to oppose eminence-based medicine. Physicians were challenged to use evidence from clinical research in their decision making and move beyond their intuition and clinical experience. Good doctors, however, are supposed to use both, their clinical expertise and the best possible evidence, in order to make… read more
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