Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: Biases, Errors and Solutions.

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Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: Biases, Errors and Solutions.

June 30, 2021

Raz M, Pouryahya P, eds. Singapore; Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd; 2021. ISBN 9789811601422.

Decision making is vulnerable to human influences such as fatigue, interruption and bias. This book provides case examples of how 60 cognitive biases can degrade clinical reasoning in the emergency department and shares tactics that minimize their potential impact on thinking.

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