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Understanding and improving decisions in clinical medicine (III): towards cognitively informed clinical thinking

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  1. Meanwhile, other researchers have shown that the frequency terminology is not even necessary to foster accurate responses, as long as the right kind of nested structure is conveyed in the representation of the problem [3].

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

    Vincenzo Crupi

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

    Fabrizio Elia & Franco Aprà

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Crupi, V., Elia, F. & Aprà, F. Understanding and improving decisions in clinical medicine (III): towards cognitively informed clinical thinking. Intern Emerg Med 13, 449–451 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-017-1763-0

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