Do People Experience Cognitive Biases while Searching for Information?

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 599-608

  Lau, Annie Y S ^a   Coiera, Enrico W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; CULTURE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STUDENTS;

EID: 34548495571     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2411     Document Type: Article

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