Confirmation bias: why psychiatrists stick to wrong preliminary diagnoses.

R. Mendel; E. Traut-Mattausch; E. Jonas; S. Leucht; J. M. Kane; K. Maino; W. Kissling; J. Hamann

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Confirmation bias: why psychiatrists stick to wrong preliminary diagnoses.

January 18, 2012

Mendel R, Traut-Mattausch E, Jonas E, et al. Psychol Med. 2011;41(12):2651-2659.

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This study found evidence that both psychiatrists and medical students fall victim to confirmation bias—a specific type of diagnostic error—when engaging in simulated diagnostic reasoning scenarios.

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