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Diagnosing fast and slow: cognitive bias in obstetrics.
September 27, 2023
Atallah F, Gomes C, Minkoff H. Obstet Gynecol. 2023;142(3):727-732.
Researchers describe two types of decision making in medicine - fast (intuitive) and slow (analytical). While both types are subject to bias, this paper describes how cognitive biases in fast thinking, such as anchoring or framing, as well as racial or moral bias, can result in obstetrical misdiagnosis. Ten steps to mitigate these cognitive biases are laid out.
