The Science of Medical Decision Making: Neurosurgery, Errors, and Personal Cognitive Strategies for Improving Quality of Care

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages e21-e29

  Fargen, Kyle M ^a   Friedman, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive debiasing; Malpractice; Medical decision making; Medical error; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; ERROR; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; PUBLICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITIVE DEBIASING; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; NEUROSURGERY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908242178     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2014.03.030     Document Type: Article

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