Diagnostic Error in Internal Medicine.¶
Graber, M. L., Franklin, N., & Gordon, R. (2005). Diagnostic Error in Internal Medicine. Archives of Internal Medicine, 165(13), 1493-1499.
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Primes¶
- Bracketing
- Mediation: mediators bracket their views of which party is right to maintain the neutrality the process depends on, with explicit training naming the discipline. Scientific observation and clinical assessment: examiners are trained to bracket prior diagnoses to assess current state freshly, contesting confirmation bias.
This sourceDocuments how anchoring and premature closure on a prior diagnosis drive diagnostic error, and the corrective discipline of suspending the initial impression to reassess the current state freshly.
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Documents premature closure on an initial diagnosis as the top cognitive cause of error and suggests debiasing strategies, but not trained 'bracketing' of prior diagnoses.
“The single most common phenomenon was premature closure: the tendency to stop considering other possibilities after reaching a diagnosis.”
- Mediation: mediators bracket their views of which party is right to maintain the neutrality the process depends on, with explicit training naming the discipline. Scientific observation and clinical assessment: examiners are trained to bracket prior diagnoses to assess current state freshly, contesting confirmation bias.
- Category Retrieval Lock In
- In medical diagnosis, premature closure locks a patient under a label so inconsistent symptoms are under-weighted.
This sourceDescribes premature closure, in which fixing a patient under a diagnostic label leads inconsistent symptoms to be under-weighted.
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Graber et al. identify premature closure as the most common cognitive cause of diagnostic error, defined as stopping consideration of alternatives once a diagnosis is reached.
“The single most common phenomenon was premature closure: the tendency to stop considering other possibilities after reaching a diagnosis.”
- In medical diagnosis, premature closure locks a patient under a label so inconsistent symptoms are under-weighted.
Domain-specific¶
- Einstellung Effect
- In clinical medicine the same mechanism appears as "premature closure," one of the most common sources of diagnostic error.
This sourceA case series of 100 internal-medicine diagnostic errors reporting premature closure as the single most common cause.
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- In clinical medicine the same mechanism appears as "premature closure," one of the most common sources of diagnostic error.
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