Book chapter
Physicians' Use of Probabilistic Information in a Real Clinical Setting
Judgement and Decision Making, p.259
SAGE library of cognitive and experimental psychology, SAGE
2009
Abstract
This study reports on physicians' processing of probabilistic information while they were treating possible pneumonia patients at an outpatient clinic. Physicians overestimated the patients' probability of pneumonia but were sensitive to relative differences in the predictive value of symptoms when present and absent, and appeared to use base-rate information correctly when making clinical judgments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Physicians' Use of Probabilistic Information in a Real Clinical Setting
- Creators
- Jay Christensen-SzalanskiJames Bushyhead
- Contributors
- Nick Chater (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Judgement and Decision Making, p.259
- Series
- SAGE library of cognitive and experimental psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE; Los Angeles
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984963234502771
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