Tag: bias
Bayes and Belief: How pre-review belief influences critical appraisal. St Emlyn’s
I’ve been reflecting on why there is disagreement about how influential new evidence is to clinical practice in the last year or so. COVID-19 has shown that the thresholds for what we believe and when …
JC: One Too Many?
That your “drunk” patient with presumed alcohol intoxication is not simply drunk but in fact has a different, potentially life-threatening cause for their reduced conscious level is a lesson best learned early in the Emergency …
When is a Door Not a Door? Bias, Heuristics & Metacognition
This is an amended version of a talk on metacognition I gave at the Royal North Shore Hospital Grand Round. The clinical scenario has changed but the content remains the same. The purpose of this …