Background Healthcare staff deliver patient care in emotionally charged settings and
experience a wide range of emotions as part of their work. These emotions and emotional …

Background Patients with mental disorders have an increased risk of develo** somatic
disorders, just as they have a higher risk of dying from them. These patients often report …

This chapter explores research in medical expertise to examine how it may inform the
understanding of the role of deliberate practice in expertise, and talks about new medical …

Background Diagnostic errors occur frequently, especially in the emergency room. Estimates
about the consequences of diagnostic error vary widely and little is known about the factors …

Context The idea that reflection improves reasoning and learning, since long present in
other fields, emerged in the 90s in the medical education literature. Since then, the number …

Rationale Clinical reasoning lies at the heart of medical practice and has a long research
tradition. Nevertheless, research is scattered across diverse academic disciplines with …

Background Patients who display disruptive behaviours in the clinical encounter (the so-
called 'difficult patients') may negatively affect doctors' diagnostic reasoning, thereby causing …

Work-related violence against healthcare workers inflicted by healthcare users is a rising
multidimensional phenomenon, a cause of concern among those who ensure the safety and …

Background Studies of missed nursing care suggest that it results from ward-level, patient-
related, and task-type factors, while nurses' decision-making style was scarcely studied …

Background All thinking occurs in some sort of context, rendering the relation between
context and clinical reasoning a matter of significant interest. Context, however, has a …