Cognitive Bias and Planning Error: Nullification of Evidence-Based Medicine in the Nursing Home

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 194-203

  Miles, Richard W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

ageism; Clinical inertia; cognitive error; fallacy; medical outliers; nonadherence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL ERROR; NURSING HOME; PROBABILITY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77049112816     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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