[The effect of the risk of a complaint on treatment decision making. An explorative investigation in fourth-year dental students].
The perception of the seriousness of a false-negative or false-positive diagnosis could influence treatment decision making for carious lesions. In order to investigate this hypothesis, the perceived risk of a complaint at a disciplinary tribunal was used as an indicator of the seriousness of the consequences of treatment decision errors. Using a computer programme for caries diagnosis on radiographs and by means of a questionnaire, was investigated in a group of fourth-year dental students whether their accuracy of treatment decision making for carious lesions was dependent on the perception of the risk of a complaint at a disciplinary tribunal. The perception of the likelihood of complaints does not seem to play a significant role in the accuracy of decision making. However, the students demonstrated unrealistical high risk perceptions of a complaint at a disciplinary tribunal following a treatment decision making error by a false diagnosis of a carious lesion on a bitewing radiograph.
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Uit de afdeling Tandheelkundige Radiologie van het Academische Centrum voor Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA).
van der Wel
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Mileman
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den Dekker
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van den Hout
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D002983:Clinical Competence; D003657:Decision Making; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D016300:Radiography, Bitewing; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology*