The causes of errors in clinical reasoning: cognitive biases, knowledge deficits, and dual process thinking. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The causes of errors in clinical reasoning: cognitive biases, knowledge deficits, and dual process thinking. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published October 2016

The causes of errors in clinical reasoning: cognitive biases, knowledge deficits, and dual process thinking.

Norman GR, Monteiro SD, Sherbino J, Ilgen JS, Schmidt HG, Mamede S. Acad Med. 2016 Oct 25; [Epub ahead of print].

Decision making is typically either intuitive or analytical. This commentary discusses the two types of decision making, how heuristics and cognitive biases affect diagnostic reasoning, and strategies to reduce diagnostic error.

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