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Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine 5/2017

01-08-2017 | CE - Clinical Notes

Understanding and improving decisions in clinical medicine (I): Reasoning, heuristics, and error

Authors: Vincenzo Crupi, Fabrizio Elia

Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine | Issue 5/2017

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In considering ourselves as agents who think and make decisions, it is natural to rely on a logic-plus-error model. According to this view, the human mind is essentially a logical machine providing coherent inferences and choices unless disturbing factors interfere and lead us astray. One key point of this idea is that, in principle, were the sources of error subtracted, logical reasoning would flow undeterred, and mistakes would vanish. …
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Title
Understanding and improving decisions in clinical medicine (I): Reasoning, heuristics, and error
Authors
Vincenzo Crupi
Fabrizio Elia
Publication date
01-08-2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Internal and Emergency Medicine / Issue 5/2017
Print ISSN: 1828-0447
Electronic ISSN: 1970-9366
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-017-1665-1

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