From Mindless to Mindful Practice — Cognitive Bias and Clinical Decision Making
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- 27 June 2013
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 368 (26), 2445-2448
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1303712
Abstract
Much diagnostic error is caused by cognitive bias. More than 100 biases affecting clinical decision making have been described, and many medical disciplines acknowledge their pervasive influence on our thinking. Training in critical thinking may ameliorate the problem.Keywords
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