Applying Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics to Medical Education and Clinical Care
Applying Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics to Medical Education and Clinical Care
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将行为经济学和神经经济学应用于医学教育和临床护理
DOI:
10.1017/cjn.2018.371
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2018
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G. Saposnik
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G. Saposnik
Behavioral economics (BE) studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors on the economic decisions of individuals and institutions. Neuroeconomics—also called decision neuroscience—is the science that studies the principles of how the brain underpins economic and other decisions. In the last few years, some researchers have applied concepts from BE and neuroeconomics to clinical care and gained novel insights. Several studies showed the impact of cognitive biases (e.g. overconfidence, status quo, outcome bias, etc.) and risk preferences (e.g. aversion to ambiguity, tolerance to uncertainty, etc.) in clinical care. This is likely related to physicians’ limited education in decision-making and formal training in risk management. Most medical schools do not include decisionmaking and risk management courses in their curriculums. Medical education in these two crucial topics (commonly faced by physicians in their routine clinical practice) is key for the training of future physicians who would be making rationale and complex decisions about others (e.g. their patients).