BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making· 2016Q1· Review

Cognitive biases associated with medical decisions: a systematic review

Gustavo Saposnik, Donald A. Redelmeier, Christian C. Ruff, Philippe N. Tobler

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2016year

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A systematic review of 20 studies found that common cognitive biases like overconfidence and anchoring affect physicians, leading to diagnostic inaccuracies in 36.5-77% of scenarios and management errors in 71.4% of studies.

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