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2737876

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-8-3
pubmed:abstractText
The medical records of 463 children seen in a hospital emergency room were studied prospectively to examine the influence of physicians' experience on their performance in the emergency room. The diagnostic and therapeutic approach of three groups of physicians to the following problems were studied: fever lasting less than 24 h or 2-7 days, diarrhea and dyspnea. The results show that less experienced physicians (residents in their first week of practice in the emergency room) tended to request a significantly greater number of laboratory tests than the senior physicians, but tended to prescribe less medications, particularly those used for symptomatic treatment. Following 3 months' training in the emergency room, these residents generally exhibited a pattern of laboratory utilization similar to that of their respective seniors; however, the residents demonstrated a significantly increased propensity to diagnose more patients as having bacterial infections and to prescribe more antibiotics. In addition to the attention paid to young physicians' diagnostic utilization performance, their therapeutic pattern of practice should also be assessed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0021-2180
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
305-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Experience and training as factors in physician performance in a pediatric emergency room.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics B, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article