The influence of anchoring on pain judgment

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-277

  Riva, Paolo ^a   Rusconi, Patrice ^a   Montali, Lorenzo ^a   Cherubini, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

anchoring effect; credibility attribution; Decision making; initial impressions; pain miscalibration; patient's rating

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANCHORING EFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STUDENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SELF EVALUATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 79961004274     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.10.264     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Craig KD. The social communication model of pain. Can Psychol 2009;50:22-32.
2. McCaffery M, Ferrell BR. Nurses' knowledge of pain assessment and management: how much progress have we made? J Pain Symptom Manage 1997;14:175-188.
3. Marks RM, Sachar EJ. Undertreatment of medical inpatients with narcotic analgesics. Ann Intern Med 1973;78:173-181.
4. Marquié L, Raufaste E, Lauque D, et al. Pain rating by patients and physicians: evidence of systematic pain miscalibration. Pain 2003;102:289-296. (Pubitemid 36369308)
5. Chibnall JT, Tait RC, Ross LR. The effects of medical evidence and pain intensity on medical student judgments of chronic pain patients. J Behav Med 1997;20:257-271. (Pubitemid 27268596)
6. Choiniere M, Melzack R, Girard N, Rondeau J, Paquin MJ. Comparison between patients' and nurses' assessment of pain and medication efficacy in severe burn injuries. Pain 1990;40:143-152. (Pubitemid 20070783)
7. Hirsh AT, George SZ, Robinson ME. Pain assessment and treatment disparities: a virtual human technology investigation. Pain 2009;143:106-113.
8. Weisse CS, Sorum PC, Dominguez RE. The influence of gender and race on physicians' pain management decisions. J Pain 2003;4:505-510. (Pubitemid 37541794)
9. Craig KD, Prkachin KM, Grunau RE. The facial expression of pain. In: Turk DC, Melzack R, eds. Handbook of pain assessment. New York: Guilford Press, 2001: 153-169.
10. Kappesser J, Williams AC, Prkachin KM. Testing two accounts of pain underestimation. Pain 2006;124:109-116. (Pubitemid 44176201)
11. Prkachin KM, Solomon PE, Ross J. Underestimation of pain by health-care providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others. Can J Nurs Res 2007;39:88-106.
12. Solomon PE. Congruence between health professionals' and patients' pain ratings: a review of the literature. Scand J Caring Sci 2001;15:174-180.
13. Tait RC, Chibnall JT, Kalauokalani D. Provider judgments of patients in pain: seeking symptom certainty. Pain Med 2009;10:11-34.
14. Stanovich KE, West RF. Individual differences in reasoning: implications for the rationality debate? Behav Brain Sci 2000;23:645-665.
15. Evans JS. In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning. Trends Cogn Sci 2003;7:454-459.
16. Gilovich T, Griffin D, Kahneman D, eds. Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
17. Igier V, Mullet E, Sorum PC. How nursing personnel judge patients' pain. Eur J Pain 2007;11:542-550. (Pubitemid 46670774)
18. Elstein AS, Shulman LS, Sprafka SA. Medical problem solving: An analysis of clinical reasoning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
19. Nickerson RS. Confirmation bias: a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. Rev Gen Psychol 1998;2:175-220. (Pubitemid 128549158)
20. Poses RM, Bekes C, Copare FJ, Scott WE. What difference do two days make? The inertia of physicians' sequential prognostic judgments for critically iii patients. Med Decis Making 1990;1:6-14. (Pubitemid 20086091)
21. Lingle JH, Ostrom TM. Principles of memory and cognition in attitude formation. In: Petty RE, Ostrom TM, Brock TC, eds. Cognitive responses in persuasion. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1981:399-420.
22. Sherman SJ, Zehner KS, Johnson J, Hirt ER. Social explanation: the role of timing, set, and recall on subjective likelihood estimates. J Pers Soc Psychol 1983;44:1127-1143.
23. Arkes HR. Costs and benefits of judgment errors: implications for debiasing. Psychol Bull 1991;110:486-498.
24. Chapman GB, Johnson EJ. Incorporating the irrelevant: anchors in judgments of belief and value. In: Gilovich T, Griffin D, Kahneman D, eds. Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002:120-138.
25. Einhorn HJ, Hogarth RM. Ambiguity and uncertainty in probabilistic inference. Psychol Rev 1985;92:433-461.
26. Tversky A, Kahneman D. Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Science 1974;185:1124-1131.
27. Del Missier F, Ferrante D, Costantini E. Focusing effects in predecisional information acquisition. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2007;125:155-174.
28. Bravata DM. Making medical decisions under uncertainty. Semin Med Pract 2000;3:6-14.
29. Brewer NT, Chapman GB, Schwartz JA, Bergus GR. The influence of irrelevant anchors on the judgments and choices of doctors and patients. Med Decis Making 2007;27:203-211. (Pubitemid 46568912)
30. Cioffi J. Decision making by emergency nurses in triage assessments. Accid Emerg Nurs 1998;6:184-191. (Pubitemid 128644631)
31. Cioffi J. A study of the use of past experiences in clinical decision making in emergency situations. Int J Nurs Stud 2001;38:591-599. (Pubitemid 33646269)
32. Cioffi J, Markham R. Clinical decision-making by midwives: managing case complexity. J Adv Nurs 1997;25:265-272. (Pubitemid 127453314)
33. Estrada CA, Isen AM, Young MJ. Positive affect facilitates integration of information and decreases anchoring in reasoning among physicians. Organ Behav Hum Decis Proc 1997;72:117-135. (Pubitemid 127340885)
34. Fisher A, Fonteyn M. An exploration of an innovative methodological approach for examining nurses' heuristic use in clinical practice. Sch Inq Nurs Pract 1995;9:263-276.
35. Glascoe FP, Dworkin PH. Obstacles to effective developmental surveillance: errors in clinical reasoning. J Dev Behav Pediatr 1993;14:344-349.
36. Judd J. Strategies used by nurses for decision-making in the paediatric orthopaedic setting. J Orthop Nurs 2005;9:166-171. (Pubitemid 41258525)
37. Redelmeier DA. The cognitive psychology of missed diagnoses. Ann Intern Med 2005;142:115-120. (Pubitemid 40096812)
38. Trowbridge RL. Twelve tips for teaching avoidance of diagnostic errors. Med Teach 2008;30:496-500. (Pubitemid 351983068)
39. Marquié L, Raufaste E, Lauque D, et al. Further results about pain rating by patients and physicians: reply to Chibnall and Tait. Pain 2004;107:194-195.
40. Tait RC, Chibnall JT. Physician judgments of chronic pain patients. Soc Sci Med 1997;45:1199-1205. (Pubitemid 27387158)
41. Chibnall JT, Tait RC. Observer perceptions of low back pain: effects of pain report and other contextual factors. J Appl Soc Psychol 1995;25:418-439.
42. Montali L, Colombo M, Riva P. Theories and practices in pain management: a research on doctors' representations. Psicologia della Salute 2009;1:33-56.
43. Drayer RA, Henderson J, Reidenberg M. Barriers to better pain control in hospitalized patients. J Pain Symptom Manage 1999;17:434-440. (Pubitemid 29289770)
44. Schneider W, Eschman A, Zuccolotto A. E-Prime reference guide. Pittsburgh, PA: Psychology Software Tools, Inc., 2002.
45. Bell F. A review of the literature on the attitudes of nurses to acute pain management. J Orthop Nurs 2000;4:64-70.
46. McCaffery M, Ferrell BR, Pasero C. Nurses' personal opinions about patients' pain and their effect on recorded assessments and titration of opioid doses. Pain Manag Nurs 2000;1:79-87.
47. Thorn M. A survey of nurses' attitudes towards the assessment and control of postoperative pain. J Orthop Nurs 1997;1:30-38.
48. Kappesser J, Williams AC. Pain estimation: asking the right questions. Pain 2010;148:184-187.
49. Rusconi P, Riva P, Cherubini P, Montali L. Taking into account the observers' uncertainty: a graduated approach to the credibility of the patient's pain evaluation. J Behav Med 2010;33:60-71.
50. Cohen J. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988.
51. Prentice DA, Miller DT. When small effects are impressive. Psychol Bull 1992;112:160-164.
52. Iafrati NS. Pain on the burn unit: patient vs. nurse perceptions. J Burn Care Rehabil 1986;7:413-416. (Pubitemid 17194130)