Overconfidence as a cause of diagnostic error in medicine.

By Eta S. Berner, M. Graber. American Journal of Medicine, 2008

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Information bias in health research: definition, pitfalls, and adjustment methods (2016, neutral): “45–47 An understanding of how the results of a medical investigation are affected by confirmation bias is important.”
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.”
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (2015, positive): “What is known Postmortem examinations have been described as an important method for detecting diagnostic errors (Berner and Graber, 2008; Graber, 2013).”