Cognitive error in an academic emergency department

Diagnosis (Berl). 2018 Sep 25;5(3):135-142. doi: 10.1515/dx-2018-0011.

Authors

Benjamin H Schnapp¹, Jean E Sun², Jeremy L Kim³, Reuben J Strayer⁴, Kaushal H Shah²

Affiliations

¹ University of Wisconsin, BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, 800 University Bay Drive, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
² The Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ St. David's South Austin Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Austin, TX, USA.
⁴ Maimonidies Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 30016277
DOI: 10.1515/dx-2018-0011

No abstract available

Keywords: classification; cognitive; diagnosis; diagnostic error; emergency; error; information processing.

MeSH terms

Cognition / physiology*
Diagnostic Errors / classification
Diagnostic Errors / mortality*
Emergency Service, Hospital / statistics & numerical data*
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Mental Processes / physiology
New York / epidemiology