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Cognitive errors and diagnostic mistakes : a case-based guide to critical thinking in medicine / Jonathan Howard.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Howard, Jonathan, 1975- author.
Contributor:
EBSCOhost
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Diagnostic errors--Prevention.
Diagnostic errors.
Diagnostic errors--Case studies.
Medical errors--Prevention.
Medical errors.
Critical thinking.
Clinical competence.
Diagnostic Errors--prevention & control.
Medical Errors--prevention & control.
Clinical Decision-Making.
Clinical Competence.
Attitude of Health Personnel.
Medical Subjects:
Diagnostic Errors--prevention & control.
Medical Errors--prevention & control.
Clinical Decision-Making.
Clinical Competence.
Attitude of Health Personnel.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 588 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Place of Publication:
Cham : Springer, [2019]
System Details:
text file
PDF
Contents:
An introduction to cognitive biases and how they led to errors and impact medical diagnoses
Aggregate bias
Anchoring
Availability
Base-rate neglect
Commission bias
Diagnosis momentum
Feedback sanction
Framing effect
Fundamental attribution error
Gambler's fallacy
Gender bias
Hindsight bias
Multiple alternatives bias
Omission bias
Order effects
Outcome bias
Overconfidence bias
Playing the odds
Posterior probability error
Premature closure
Psych-out error
Representativeness restraint
Search satisfying
Sutton's slip
Triage cueing
Unpacking principle
Vertical line failure
Visceral bias
Yin Yang
Strategies to improve critical thinking and minimize cognitive biases/diagnostic errors.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed May 21, 2020).
Other Format:
Print version: Howard, Jonathan, 1975- Cognitive errors and diagnostic mistakes.
ISBN:
9783319932248
3319932241
3319932233
9783319932231
Publisher Number:
90103371784
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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