(Reuters Health) - When multiple doctors are on the job, there's a higher l...
- When multiple doctors are on the job, there’s a higher likelihood that a correct diagnosis will be made, a new study suggests.
“We are saying, what if you crowdsourced a case?” said lead author Dr. Michael Barnett, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “You get a bunch of doctors together solving the case and put the answers together as if they were in the same room and come up with a ranked list. If you pick the diagnosis at the top of the list, you do way better than individual doctors do.
Ultimately the researchers concentrated on 1,572 cases from the dataset that 2,069 users had offered diagnoses for. Among the users were 1,228 residents or fellows, 431 attending physicians and 410 medical students. Barnett isn’t sure how a similar process could be implemented in real world situations. That’s a subject for further research, he said.
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