Learning and elucidating the uncertainty in primary care by mapping uncertainty in medicine

Abstract

This letter reports on a workshop aiming to ease clinical practice by mapping uncertainties in clinical practice. The workshop was indeed effective considering the mapped uncertainties based on previous research and included discussion. We believe that future expansion of similar activities will promote the study of uncertainty in clinical practice.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

All authors discussed the study and approved the final manuscript.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank Enago () for the English language review.

FUNDING INFORMATION

Not applicable.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Date sharing is not applicable to this article as no data sets were generated or analyzed during the present study.

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