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

Nikhil Mull; James B. Reilly; Jennifer S. Myers

doi:10.3949/ccjm.82a.14087

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

Nikhil Mull, MD, James B. Reilly, MD, MS and Jennifer S. Myers, MD

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2015, 82 (11) 745-753; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14087

Nikhil Mull

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Assistant Director, Center for Evidence-based Practice, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA

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James B. Reilly

Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Temple University, Pittsburgh, PA

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Jennifer S. Myers

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

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

Nikhil Mull, James B. Reilly, Jennifer S. Myers

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine Nov 2015, 82 (11) 745-753; DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.82a.14087

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

Nikhil Mull, James B. Reilly, Jennifer S. Myers

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine Nov 2015, 82 (11) 745-753; DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.82a.14087

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