Patients' gut feelings seem useful in primary care professionals' decision making.

Background: Family physicians' diagnostic gut feelings have proved to be valuable. But what about patients' gut feelings? Research has shown that patients' gut feelings may contribute to their physicians' clinical reasoning. Dutch medical tribunals consider patients' worry useful for doctors' diagnostic process.

[General practitioners' recognition and management of child abuse: what is going well and what could be improved?].

In the Netherlands, child abuse affects about 100.000 children resulting in at least 17 child fatalities a year. General practitioners' (GPs) health care position is of vital importance for recognising and managing child abuse.

[Diagnostic reasoning in patients with multimorbidity].

Many diseases in patients with multimorbidity show interactions, which can be divided in random, causal, complicated of synergistic interactions. Diagnostic reasoning in general should be expanded with a goal assessment when single disease directed guidelines are not applicable to limit diagnostic burden and troubling incidental findings without added diagnostic value. Disease directed diagnostic guidelines are not well adapted to symptoms and complaints of patients with multimorbidity, which urges to first explain these based on progression of the multimorbidity, and only if necessary, expand this to diagnostic work-up for new diseases.

Blending Machine Learning and Interaction Design in Audio Explorer.

The results of machine learning models can often be difficult to interpret, especially for domain experts. Audio Explorer, the winning entry of the 2018 VAST Challenge, is an interactive data exploration tool that effectively communicates machine learning results using coordinated geospatial, temporal, and auditory visualizations to promote information discovery.

[Gut feelings in the diagnostic reasoning process; the role of uncertainty].

What role does uncertainty play in the doctor's diagnostic reasoning process? Would it not be better to avoid uncertainty as much as possible? In this article we answer this question from an epistemological perspective. Doctors build up relevant, situational knowledge during the diagnostic process through listening, observation and interpretation during their contact with the patient. Uncertainty can play a crucial role in this.