Understanding the Nonrational Components of Choice

Understanding the Nonrational Components of Choice

Who doesn’t love to think about the nonrational components of medical decisions and choices? If you know me, you know I’m fascinated by the decisions we make, both as doctors and as patients. Why do doctors and patients make choices that seem to fly in...
Nonrational Cognitive Processes in Medical Decision Making

Nonrational Cognitive Processes in Medical Decision Making

What are the processes that contribute to errors in medical decision making? Certainly, medical decision making is complex, and simple knowledge gaps could be to blame. But very often, experienced physicians make medical decision errors in the form of cognitive...

Quality in Medical Decision Making: Cost, Error, and Bias

How do we define quality in medical decisions? Missed diagnoses make headlines commonly. Yet there is a pervasive conflict among insurers, patients, and physicians when it comes to health care quality, testing, and cost. Perhaps the root of this problem is that we do...

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