RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 An elderly woman with ‘heart failure’: Cognitive biases and diagnostic error
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 745
OP 753
DO 10.3949/ccjm.82a.14087
VO 82
IS 11
A1 Mull, Nikhil
A1 Reilly, James B.
A1 Myers, Jennifer S.
YR 2015
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/82/11/745.abstract
AB Errors in diagnosis can arise from the clinician’s cognitive biases as well as from problems in the healthcare system. Here the authors review a case with a bad outcome to analyze what went wrong and why.