ReviewDiagnosis (Berlin, Germany)2022
Affective influences on clinical reasoning and diagnosis: insights from social psychology and new research opportunities.
Review in Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05364801 (Impact of Anxiety on the Decision-making Process of Anesthesiologists in the Choice of Drugs for Induction of General Anesthesia of Patients With Aspiration Risk Factors), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Impact of Anxiety on the Decision-making Process of Anesthesiologists in the Choice of Drugs for Induction of General Anesthesia of Patients With Aspiration Risk Factors
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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Abstract
Psychological research consistently demonstrates that affect can play an important role in decision-making across a broad range of contexts. Despite this, the role of affect in clinical reasoning and medical decision-making has received relatively little attention. Integrating the affect, social cognition, and patient safety literatures can provide new insights that promise to advance our understanding of clinical reasoning and lay the foundation for novel interventions to reduce diagnostic errors and improve patient safety. In this paper, we briefly review the ways in which psychologists differentiate various types of affect. We then consider existing research examining the influence of both positive and negative affect on clinical reasoning and diagnosis. Finally, we introduce an empirically supported theoretical framework from social psychology that explains the cognitive processes by which these effects emerge and demonstrates that cognitive interventions can alter these processes. Such interventions, if adapted to a medical context, hold great promise for reducing errors that emerge from faulty thinking when healthcare providers experience different affective responses.
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