Impact of Clinical Experience and Diagnostic Performance in Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain

Table 1

Category of attending physician at the emergency department and the proportion of correct diagnoses.

	Diagnoses	Proportion diagnoses; %	Correct diagnoses	Proportion of correct diagnoses; %
Locum	479	16	277	58
Pre-registrar	1409	46	759	54
Senior house officer	811	26	443	55
Specialist/consultant	40	1.3	18	45
General physician (hospital)	195	6.3	103	53
General physician (primary health care)	139	4.5	71	51

Proportion of correct diagnoses between preliminary diagnosis as decided by the physician responsible on admission and final diagnosis after at least one year of follow-up.