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Cognitive biases encountered by physicians in the emergency room.
November 9, 2022
Kunitomo K, Harada T, Watari T. BMC Emerg Med. 2022;22(1):148.
Cognitive biases can impede diagnostic decision-making and contribute to diagnostic delays and patient harm. This study explored the types of cognitive biases contributing to diagnostic errors in emergency rooms in Japan. The most common biases reported were overconfidence, confirmation bias, availability bias, and anchoring bias. Findings indicate that most diagnostic errors involved overlooking another disease in the same organ group or related organ (e.g., diagnosing headache rather than stroke).
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