Norbert Donner-Banzhoff wrote a commentary on: ‘COGITA network has constructed a glossary of diagnostic reasoning terms’. The answer to the question in the title is a clear ‘yes’. Read more.

Recently, in the BJGP Open an article was published about how GPs recognize a sepsis. The authors’ final conclusion was that the history, the general appearance and a gut feeling are more important elements than body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and peripheral oxygen saturation in self-reported cases of patients referred due to a possible serious infection…. read more

In France, children represent an important part of consultations in general practice. Gut feelings (GF) is a transcultural concept studied by Dutch and French general practitioners according to precise definition criteria. International literature suggests the importance of GF in detecting severe childhood infections. We aim to evaluate the place that GF can have in the… read more

Abstract BACKGROUND: Physicians’ clinical decision-making may be influenced by non-analytical thinking, especially when perceiving uncertainty. Incidental gut feelings in general practice have been described, namely, as “a sense of alarm” and “a sense of reassurance”. A Dutch Gut Feelings Questionnaire (GFQ) was developed, validated and afterwards translated into English following a linguistic validation procedure. The… read more