Can cognitive biases during consumer health information searches be reduced to improve decision making?

OBJECTIVE: To test whether the anchoring and order cognitive biases experienced during search by consumers using information retrieval systems can be corrected to improve the accuracy of, and confidence in, answers to health-related questions. DESIGN: A prospective study was conducted on 227 undergr...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 54 - 66
Autores principales: Lau AY, Coiera EW
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jan/Feb2009
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