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Understanding and improving decisions in clinical medicine (II): making sense of reasoning in practice

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  1. High Dependency Unit, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Turin, Italy

    Fabrizio Elia & Franco Aprà

  2. Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition, Department of Philosophy and Education, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Vincenzo Crupi

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Elia, F., Aprà, F. & Crupi, V. Understanding and improving decisions in clinical medicine (II): making sense of reasoning in practice. Intern Emerg Med 13, 287–289 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-017-1740-7

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