Countering cognitive biases in minimising low value care
- 15 May 2017
- journal article
- review article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 206 (9), 407-411
- https://doi.org/10.5694/mja16.00999
Abstract
? Cognitive biases in decision making may make it difficult for clinicians to reconcile evidence of overuse with highly ingrained prior beliefs and intuitionThis publication has 57 references indexed in Scilit:
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