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The role of specific disease knowledge in counteracting bias in diagnostic reasoning

The influence of specific disease knowledge on physicians’ susceptibility to bias in diagnostic reasoning: A randomized controlled trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
NL-OMON
Registry ID
NL-OMON25411
Enrollment
62
Registered
2020-12-15
Start date
2020-12-15
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-02-28

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Inflammatory bowel disease

Interventions

Each clinical case will be manipulated to become either subjected to bias or not subjected to bias. Bias will be induced by adding to the case salient distracting features, findings that though irrel

Sponsors

Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam (iMERR) and Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center; Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Residents in internal medicine or emergency medicine in hospitals in the Netherlands who have at least 1 year of clinical experience

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Medical students; residents in internal medicine or emergency medicine with less than 1 year of clinical experience or from other specialties

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Frequency of wrong diagnoses induced by the bias

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Knowledge test score; diagnostic accuracy scores; time spent in diagnosis; rating of confidence in the diagnosis; frequency of bias-induced diagnoses recalled subsequently.

Contacts

Public ContactSilvia Mamede

Erasmus Medical Center

s.mamede@erasmusmc.nl+ 31 10 7038270

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)