Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine /

• Main Author: Howard, Jonathan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: General practice (Medicine).; Health promotion.; Pharmacy.; Neurology .; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance.; Neurology.

This case-based book illustrates and explores common cognitive biases and their consequences in the practice of medicine. The book begins with an introduction that explains the concept of cognitive errors and their importance in clinical medicine and current controversies within healthcare. The core...

Table of Contents:

• An introduction to cognitive biases and how they led to errors and impact medical diagnoses
• Aggregate bias
• Anchoring
• Availability
• Base-rate neglect
• Commission bias
• Diagnosis momentum
• Feedback sanction
• Framing effect
• Fundamental attribution error
• Gambler's fallacy
• Gender bias
• Hindsight bias
• Multiple alternatives bias
• Omission bias
• Order effects
• Outcome bias
• Overconfidence bias
• Playing the odds
• Posterior probability error
• Premature closure
• Psych-out error
• Representativeness restraint
• Search satisfying
• Sutton's slip
• Triage cueing
• Unpacking principle
• Vertical line failure
• Visceral bias
• Yin Yang
• Strategies to improve critical thinking and minimize cognitive biases/diagnostic errors. .