Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes

First case-based book illustrating cognitive biases and their consequences in the practice of medicine

Provides strategies on minimizing cognitive errors

Engaging and easy-to-read

Autorentext

Jonathan Howard MD

Assistant Professor, Neurology and Psychiatry

NYU Langone Medical Center

New York, NY

Inhalt

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.