The Role of Differential Diagnoses in Self‐Triage Decision‐Making

Self‐triage, or the decision if and when to seek medical care is crucial, but also intrinsically difficult. The current study evaluates how the presence of competing diagnoses with differing severities influences participants' likelihood of seeking care. Participants were healthy undergraduate students from McMaster University. In a within‐subjects design, participants rated the urgency with which they would seek medical care for a series of …