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Do patients’ faces influence General Practitioners’ cancer suspicions? A test of automatic processing of sociodemographic information

BACKGROUND: Delayed cancer diagnosis leads to poorer patient outcomes. During short consultations, General Practitioners (GPs) make quick decisions about likelihood of cancer. Patients’ facial cues are processed rapidly and may influence diagnosis. AIM: To investigate whether patients’ facial charac...

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Autores principales: Adam, Rosalind, Garau, Roberta, Raja, Edwin Amalraj, Jones, Benedict, Johnston, Marie, Murchie, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5699847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29166652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188222