French Gut Feelings Questionnaire
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
Marie Barais, Florie Scouarnec, SĂ©bastien de Villèle, JĂ©rĂ©my DerriĂ©nnic and Pierre Barraine performed the translation of the Gut Feelings Questionnaire (GFQ) into a French language real practice version, following a linguistic validation procedure. They will together with German and Polish researchers who recently performed German and Polish language versions publish an article to give account of the way they… read more
Gut Feelings Questionnaire in German language
Friday, June 19th, 2015
The Gut Feelings Questionnaire has been translated into German using a linguistic validation procedure. The whole validation procedure was done by the researchers Johannes Hauswaldt (general practitioner) and Daniel Hausmann (psychologist). They plan to publish a report of the whole procedure together with French and Polish researchers who performed a similar translation procedure into French and Polish…. read more
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The biggest hurdle of implementing EBM in general practice
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
Paul Glasziou, an important professor of EBM at Bond University in Australia, wrote a BMJ blog (BMJ Clinical Evidence Blog) about the future of EBM. We can learn a lot of Paul but he forgot to mention the biggest hurdle of implementing EBM, at least in general practice: the lack of studies into how to… read more
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Gut feelings don’t stop thinking but do start thinking (Marburg conference 2015)
Saturday, April 25th, 2015
COGITA-conference March 26th 2015 in Marburg: a summary The German Gut Feelings Questionnaire. The day started with an overview of 10 yrs Gut Feelings research by Erik Stolper. Afterwards Johannes Hauswaldt and Daniel Hausmann presented the German Gut Feelings Questionnaire. The questionnaire was translated from the English original into German at a linguistically validated way… read more
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How useful are gut feelings in medical practice? A scientific debate
Sunday, April 5th, 2015
In Huisarts en Wetenschap (april 2015) staat een wetenschappelijke beschouwing over de betekenis van het pluis/niet-pluis gevoel in het diagnostisch denken van artsen: ‘Hoe pluis is het niet-pluisgevoel’? De eerste resultaten van een onderzoek onder ziekenhuisspecialisten worden vermeld. Abstract (Huisarts&Wetenschap): Many GPs use their gut feelings, in terms of a sense of reassurance or a… read more
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Protocol for a prospective study on gut feelings and dyspnoe and/or thoracic pain.
Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
The accuracy of the general practitioner’s sense of alarm when confronted with dyspnoea and/or thoracic pain: protocol for a prospective observational study, published in the BMJ Open (see http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/3/e006810.long) (Marie Barais et al). The sensitivity, the specificity, the positive and negative likelihood ratio of the sense of alarm will be calculated from a constructed contingency table…. read more
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Gut feelings questionnaire in real settings: a feasibility study protocol
Monday, October 20th, 2014
Marie Barais will present on the 79the EGPRN conference (Heraklion-Greece) in a five minutes-one slide presentation a multinational feasability study protocol of the gut feelings questionnaire (GFQ). The GFQ is a 10 items questionnaire based on the consensus statements defining gut feelings in a general practitioner’s diagnostic reasoning. The construct validity of the questionnaire was tested by case vignettes.The aim of the GFQ… read more
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How do gut feelings feature in tutorial dialogues?
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Discussing gut feelings in tutorial dialogues seems to be a good educational method to familiarize trainees with non-analytical reasoning. Supervisors need specialised knowledge about these aspects of diagnostic reasoning and how to deal with them in medical education.... read more
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Summary of the COGITA spring meetings 2014 in Barcelona
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
The main result of the spring meeting in Barcelona is that an international feasibility study on the gut feelings questionnaire (GFQ) in general practice will be started in France, Belgium, Poland and the Netherlands, and possibly also in the UK. The proposal for a research protocol will shortly be adjusted. Another major result was the… read more
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“I Can’t Find Anything Wrong: It Must Be a Pulmonary Embolism”
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
“I Can’t Find Anything Wrong: It Must Be a Pulmonary Embolism”: Diagnosing Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Primary Care, a Qualitative Study. by Marie Barais et al. This study illustrated the diagnostic role of gut feelings in the specific context of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) in primary care. The Family Physicians used the sense of alarm as a… read more
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