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The need for cognition and the curse of cognition.

October 3, 2018

Croskerry P. Diagnosis (Berl). 2018;5(3):91-94.

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Cognitive bias is increasingly receiving recognition as a barrier to effective health care delivery. This commentary explores reasons for the lack of evidence regarding the effect of biases on decision making and advocates for learning how cognitive biases affect diagnosis to drive improvement.

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