Rationality in medical decision making: a review of the literature on doctors’ decision‐making biases
- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
- Vol. 7 (2), 97-107
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2753.2001.00284.x
Abstract
The objectives of this study were to describe ways in which doctors make suboptimal diagnostic and treatment decisions, and to discuss possible means of alleviating those biases, using a review of pa...Keywords
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