Assessment of the sunk-cost effect in clinical decision-making

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 186-192

  Braverman, Jennifer A ^a   Blumenthal Barby, J S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biases; Decision making; Health care; Heuristic; Medical treatment; Optimism; Sunk cost; United States

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEURISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDWIFE; NURSE; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PHYSICIAN; SOCIAL WORKER; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860698827     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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