Types of therapeutic errors in the management of osteoporosis made by physicians and medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical reasoning is of high importance in clinical practice and thus in medical education research. Regarding the clinical reasoning process, the focus has primarily been on diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic errors, but little research has been done on the subsequent management reasoning process, although the therapeutic decision-making process is at least equally important. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of therapeutic decision errors and the cognitive factors leading to these errors in the context of osteoporosis, as it is known to be frequently associated with inadequate treatment decisions in clinical practice worldwide.

Methods

In 2019, 19 medical students and-for comparison-23 physicians worked on ten patient cases with the medica

SUBMITTER: Tausendfreund O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9044589 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature