Profiles in patient safety: confirmation bias in emergency medicine.

Jesse M. Pines

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Profiles in patient safety: confirmation bias in emergency medicine.

January 11, 2006

Pines JM. Acad Emerg Med. 2006;13(1):90-4.

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The author comments on the conditions that allow for confirmation bias in emergency medicine decision making and suggests automation, cognitive forcing strategies, and metacognition as strategies to minimize its occurrence.

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