An elderly woman with 'heart failure': Cognitive biases and diagnostic error

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Abstract

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.

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Mull, N., Reilly, J. B., & Myers, J. S. (2015). An elderly woman with “heart failure”: Cognitive biases and diagnostic error. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14087

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