Profiles in patient safety: Confirmation bias in emergency medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-94

  Pines, Jesse M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmation bias; Diagnostic accuracy; Emergency medicine; Medical error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRST AID; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRIAGE;

EID: 29244483122     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.07.028     Document Type: Article

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