The Importance of Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis and Strategies to Minimize Them

By P. Croskerry. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2003

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Family Practice, Pharmacy

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Rethinking the biopsychosocial model of health: Understanding health as a dynamic system (2017, neutral): “Evette worried that he would mistakenly attribute her health problems to an alcoholic relapse, an error that can occur in health ‐ care delivery anywhere (Croskerry, 2003).”
Cognitive biases associated with medical decisions: a systematic review (2016, background): “errors in the diagnosis, management, or treatment of medical conditions [6, 26].”
Missed and Delayed Diagnoses in the Ambulatory Setting: A Study of Closed Malpractice Claims (2006, background): “In general, our findings reinforce the need for systems interventions that mitigate the potential impact of cognitive errors by reducing reliance on memory, forcing consideration of alternative diagnostic plans or second opinions, and providing clinical decision support systems (21, 22).”
Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors. (2009, background): “Practicing such introspection is a key attribute of reflective physicians who systematically examine and learn from cases in which things go wrong.(22-24) Creating more systematic approaches, checklists, or automated decision support to aid in recalling, learning from, and sharing such cases has the”
To Trust or to Think (2021, background): “However, because prior research provides ample evidence that even experts making critical decisions resort to heuristic thinking (and fall prey to cognitive biases) [4, 6, 17, 42], we have some confidence that our results will generalize broadly.”
Fixation and creativity in concept development: the attitudes and practices of expert designers (2015, background): “…diagnostic practices of medics have been studied from the perspective of cognitive errors (Kassirer & Kopelman, 1989), including the effects of premature decisions, prior expectations, confirmation bias, momentum effects, framing effects and inappropriate attention to sunk costs (Croskerry, 2003).”
Overconfidence as a cause of diagnostic error in medicine. (2008, background): “These biases reflect the tendency to seek out data that confirm one’s original idea rather than to seek out disconfirming data.(115)”
Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information-Processing Failures (2014, background): “Heuristics, by definition, limit information processing, and thus may reduce the quality of team judgments or decisions, especially for non-routine decisions (cf. Croskerry, 2003; Fischhoff, 1982).”
Diagnostic error in internal medicine. (2005, background): “15-17 Diagnosis reflects the clinician’s knowledge, clinical acumen, and problem-solving skills.”
Understanding and Resolving Failures in Human-Robot Interaction: Literature Review and Model Development (2018, background): “These recommendations, alongside additional strategies (e.g., Croskerry, 2003), could be used to help facilitate the design of failure-management interfaces for robots to improve the problem-solving abilities of untrained users.”
Evidence‐Based Assessment as an Integrative Model for Applying Psychological Science to Guide the Voyage of Treatment (2017, background): “, and then we do an excellent job of searching for confirmatory data (Croskerry, 2003).”
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (2015, positive): “Diagnostic errors may also be perceived as too difficult to address because the reasons for their occurrence are often complex and multi faceted (Berenson et al., 2014; Croskerry, 2003; Graber et al., 2005; Schiff et al., 2005; Zwaan et al., 2009).”
The Validity of the Multi-Informant Approach to Assessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2015, neutral): “This referral question typically informs assessors’ initial hypotheses as to the patients’ concerns and thus the key goal of the assessment (Croskerry, 2003).”