Regret among primary care physicians: a survey of diagnostic decisions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Experienced and anticipated regret influence physicians' decision-making. In medicine, diagnostic decisions and diagnostic errors can have a severe impact on both patients and physicians. Little empirical research exists on regret experienced by physicians when they make diagnostic decisions in primary care that later prove inappropriate or incorrect. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of regret following diagnostic decisions in primary care.

Methods

In this qualitative study, we used an online questionnaire on a sample of German primary care physicians. We asked participants to report on cases in which the final diagnosis differed from their original opinion, and in which treatment was at the very least delayed, possibly resulting in harm to the

SUBMITTER: Muller BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079478 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature