ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2021
Attitudes toward risk among emergency physicians and advanced practice clinicians in Massachusetts.
Article in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- A predictive scoring system for therapy-failure in persons with chronic myeloid leukemia receiving initial imatinib therapy.Leukemia · 2022Trial
- Article
- Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes of Emergency Surgery Following a Return Visit to the Emergency Department.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025Article
- "I worry we'll blow right by it:" Barriers to Uptake of the STRATIFY-CDS for Acute Heart Failure.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Article
- National survey of current practices and attitudes regarding discharge disposition for older adults with mild traumatic brain injury and traumatic intracranial hemorrhage.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2025Article
- Self-assessment and learning motivation in emergency point-of-care ultrasound: an online pilot investigation in German physicians.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Exploring communication preferences and risk thresholds of clinicians and parents of febrile infants under 90 days presenting to the emergency department: a qualitative study.Archives of disease in childhood · 2024Article
- Clinician Risk Tolerance and Rates of Admission From the Emergency Department.JAMA network open · 2024Observational
- Perspectives of Emergency Clinicians About Medical Errors Resulting in Patient Harm or Malpractice Litigation.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Attitudes toward risk among emergency physicians and advanced practice clinicians in Massachusetts.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2021Article
- Understanding Factors Influencing Decision Making during Assessment of Potential Organ Donors: A Qualitative Study of Clinicians Assessing the Medical Suitability of Potential Donors.MDM policy & practiceArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveRisk aversion is a personality trait influential to decision making in medicine. Little is known about how emergency department (ED) clinicians differ in their attitudes toward risk taking.
methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of practicing ED clinicians (physicians and advanced practice clinicians [APCs]) in Massachusetts using the following 4 existing validated scales: the Risk-Taking Scale (RTS), Stress from Uncertainty Scale (SUS), the Fear of Malpractice Scale (FMS), and the Need for (Cognitive) Closure Scale (NCC). We used Cronbach's α to assess the reliability of each scale and performed multivariable linear regressions to analyze the association between the score for each scale and clinician characteristics.
resultsOf 1458 ED clinicians recruited for participation, 1116 (76.5%) responded from 93% of acute care hospitals in Massachusetts. Each of the 4 scales demonstrated high internal consistency reliability with Cronbach's αs ranging from 0.76 to 0.92. The 4 scales also were moderately correlated with one another (0.08 to 0.54; all
conclusionWe found that risk attitudes of ED clinicians were associated with type of training (physician vs APC) and age (experience). These differences suggest one possible explanation for the observed differences in decision making.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.