Omission Bias and Decision Making in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
CHEST JournalPublished 1 September 2005
Scott K. Aberegg, Edward F. Haponik, Peter B. Terry
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Pulmonary and critical care decisions are susceptible to the influence of omission and status quo bias, and this finding could have far-reaching implications for patient outcomes, cost-effectiveness, resource utilization, clinical practice variability, and medical errors.
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Pulmonary and critical care decisions are susceptible to the influence of omission and status quo bias. Because of the great number of decisions that are made each day involving choices between maintaining or changing the status quo, this finding could have far-reaching implications for patient outcomes, cost-effectiveness, resource utilization, clinical practice variability, and medical errors.
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