Physician decision making and cardiac risk: Effects of knowledge, risk perception, risk tolerance, and fuzzy processing
Physician decision making and cardiac risk: Effects of knowledge, risk perception, risk tolerance, and fuzzy processing
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DOI:
10.1037/1076-898x.12.3.179
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发表时间:
2006-09-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Lloyd, Farrell J.
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作者:
Reyna, Valerie F.;Lloyd, Farrell J.
Despite training, professionals sometimes make serious errors in risky decision making. The authors investigated judgments and decisions for 9 hypothetical patients at 3 levels of cardiac risk, comparing student and physician groups varying in domain-specific knowledge. Decisions were examined regarding whether they deviated from guidelines, how risk perceptions and risk tolerances determined decisions, and how the latter differed for knowledge groups. More knowledgeable professionals were better at discriminating levels of risk according to external correspondence criteria but committed similar errors in disjunctive probability judgments, violating internal coherence criteria. Also, higher knowledge groups relied on fewer dimensions of information than did lower knowledge groups. Consistent with fuzzy-trace theory, experts achieved better discrimination by processing less information and made sharper all-or-none distinctions among decision categories.