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Current State of Diagnostic Safety: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy.

To accelerate progress in diagnostic safety science and improvement activities, we used two methods to identify major themes related to the current state of diagnostic safety and highlight key gaps in knowledge. The first was a rapid narrative review …

Impact of performance and information feedback on medical interns' confidence–accuracy calibration.

Diagnostic errors are a major, largely preventable, patient safety concern. Error interventions cannot feasibly be implemented for every patient that is seen. To identify cases at high risk of error, clinicians should have a good calibration between …

Managing Interruptions to Improve Diagnostic Decision-Making: Strategies and Recommended Research Agenda.

Interruptions are an inevitable occurrence in health care. Interruptions in diagnostic decision-making are no exception and can have negative consequences on both the decision-making process and well-being of the decision-maker. This may result in …

The mazing race: Effects of interruptions and benefits of interruption lags in a novel maze-like decision-making paradigm.

Interruptions are an inevitable, and often negative, part of everyday life that increase both errors and the time needed to complete even menial tasks. However, existing research suggests that being given time to prepare for a pending interruption—a …

Adapting to the algorithm: how accuracy comparisons promote the use of a decision aid.

In three experiments, we sought to understand when and why people use an algorithm decision aid. Distinct from recent approaches, we explicitly enumerate the algorithm’s accuracy while also providing summary feedback and training that allowed …

The effects of interruptions on decision-making with applications in medicine

From a child interrupting a conversation between her parents to ask “What’s for dinner?” to a nurse interrupting a physician in the middle of a complex procedure with an urgent message, interruptions are an inevitable part of our daily lives no …

Assessing theoretical conclusions with blinded inference to investigate a potential inference crisis.

Scientific advances across a range of disciplines hinge on the ability to make inferences about unobservable theoretical entities on the basis of empirical data patterns. Accurate inferences rely on both discovering valid, replicable data patterns …

What's lagging in our understanding of interruptions?: Effects of interruption lags in sequential decision-making.

Interruptions are an inevitable part of every day life. Previous research suggests that interruptions can decrease performance and increase errors and response time. Additionally, there is evidence that providing a lag time prior to an interruption …

Using decision models to enhance investigations of individual differences in cognitive neuroscience.

There is great interest in relating individual differences in cognitive processing to activation of neural systems. The general process involves relating measures of task performance like reaction times or accuracy to brain activity to identify …