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II. Diagnostic Styles *

EUGENE F. GAURON, PhD; JOHN K. DICKINSON, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;14(3):233-237.

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IN A PREVIOUS paper we analyzed information usage by psychiatrists in decision making.¹ The present paper extends the basic topic of how psychiatrists reach conclusions to considerations of "master plans" that individual doctors used in diagnosing a case, types of thought processes involved in decision making, and the degree of structuring brought by the physicians to the task. The investigators expected that some decision makers would reach the same conclusion by different methods and that others would reach different conclusions by the same method. However, the focus of the paper will be on the tactical approaches that doctors used in evaluating a case and making a diagnosis, rather than on disagreements among them in the final result of the decision-making process.

Subjects and Procedure

The subjects of the study and the procedure have been described in the previous paper.¹ Briefly, 12 psychiatrists . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IOWA CITY, IOWA

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 16, 1965.

Reprint requests to 500 Newton Rd, Iowa City, Iowa 52241 (Dr. Gauron).

Part I appears in the Archives of General Psychiatry this issue, p 225.

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