Clinical Biases

Decision making mini-series - episode 3 - Bias

In this episode we discuss the complexities of decision-making in veterinary medicine, focusing on biases that can impact clinical reasoning and client communication. We look at how biases can lead to misdiagnosis, affect treatment choices, influence client trust and ultimately impact on animal welfare. 

We consider some of the more common biases, such as confirmation bias, anchoring bias, and availability bias, and emphasizes the importance of recognizing and mitigating these biases to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient safety.

As usual, we have more resources on this topic at Vet Your Decisions 

In a future episode we're going to look at our favourite text books on animal welfare and decision making. I'm currently reading Veterinary Controversies and Ethical Dilemmas | Provocative Reflection (there are so many topics in here!) and it would be great if you could suggest your favourite books in this area. 

A couple of the authors in this text book Tanya Stephens and Sean Wensley very kindly supported the The Animal Welfare Conversation podcast in the early days. If you've not listened to them yet then you can catch up here. 

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