Cognitive Biases

Question 1

Anchoring

Answer 1

Staying locked onto the diagnosis made early on despite disconfirming evidence

Question 2

Availability

Answer 2

Jumping to a diagnosis that comes to mind quickly because it is common, serious, recently encountered or otherwise noteworthy

Question 3

Framing effect

Answer 3

Allowing the way the story is framed, whom the story came from, and where the patient is seen to influence diagnostic conclusions

Question 4

Blind Obedience

Answer 4

Showing undue deference to authority or technology

Question 5

Unpacking

Answer 5

Failing to elicit all relevant information in establishing a diagnosis

Question 6

Confirmation

Answer 6

Looking for clues to support the diagnosis rather than working the outliers into the diagnosis

Question 7

Diagnostic momentum

Answer 7

Pushing forward diagnoses from previous encounters without evaluation of their accuracy or goodness of fit with current presentation

Question 8

Visceral Bias

Answer 8

Allowing personal feelings towards the patient influence diagnostic conclusions

Question 9

Overconfidence

Answer 9

Believing that one knows more than one actually does or that a test/ procedure is more accurate/ effective that it actually is