Is bias in the eye of the beholder? A vignette study to assess recognition of cognitive biases in clinical case workups

BACKGROUND: Many authors have implicated cognitive biases as a primary cause of diagnostic error. If this is so, then physicians already familiar with common cognitive biases should consistently identify biases present in a clinical workup. The aim of this paper is to determine whether physicians agree on the presence or absence of particular biases in a clinical case workup and how case outcome knowledge affects bias identification. METHODS: …