BMJ 2005;330 (2 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7494.0-e
You're wrong more often than you think
On page 781, Klein discusses five examples of cognitive biases that can affect medical decision making and offers suggestions for avoiding them. Psychologists have extensively studied the cognitive processes involved in decision making, and the biases that lead to making poor decisions are widespread, even among doctors. It is possible to train yourself to watch for these errors. Among the strategies for good decision making are to consider whether data are truly relevant and to ask questions that would disprove, rather than confirm, your current hypothesis.
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