Decision making biases in the allied health professions: A systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Cognitive and other biases can influence the quality of healthcare decision making. While substantial research has explored how biases can lead to diagnostic or other errors in medicine, fewer studies have examined how they impact the decision making of other healthcare professionals. This scoping review aimed to identify and synthesise a broad range of research investigating whether decisions made by allied health professionals are influenced by cognitive, affective or other biases.

Materials and methods

A systematic literature search was conducted in five electronic databases. Title, abstract and full text screening was undertaken in duplicate, using prespecified eligibility criteria designed to identify studies attempting to demonstrate the presence of bias whe

SUBMITTER: Featherston R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7575084 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature