Email this article Heuristics and medical errors. Part 2: How to make better medical decisions
- Authors: Graber M.A.1
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- University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
- Issue: Vol 25, No 1 (2021)
- Pages: 45-52
- Section: Theory and practice
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/RFD/article/view/62009
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/RFD62009
- ID: 62009
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Abstract
This publication is a continuation of the article published in the 4th issue of the journal Russian family doctor for 2020 “Heuristics, language and medical errors”, which described the ways of making medical decisions that can lead to errors in patient management tactics, in particular “affect of heuristics / visceral bias”, “attribution error”, “frame of reference”, “availability bias”, “one-word-one-meaning-fallacy”. This article discusses additional sources of diagnostic error, including “diagnosis momentum”, “confirmation bias”, “representativeness”, and “premature closure” also the conflict that arises from diagnostic uncertainty is discussed. All errors in the tactics and the diagnostic process are illustrated by clinical cases from the personal practice of the author of the article.
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Mark A. Graber
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Author for correspondence.
Email: mark-graber@uiowa.edu
MD MSHCE FACEP, Emeritus Professor of Emergency and Family Medicine
United States, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 451 Newton Road, 200 Medicine Administration Building, Iowa City, IA 52242References
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