BET 2: Poor evidence on whether teaching cognitive debiasing, or cognitive forcing strategies, lead to a reduction in errors attributable to cognition in emergency medicine students or doctors

Emerg Med J. 2017 Aug;34(8):553-554. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2017-206976.2.

Abstract

A short review was carried out to see if teaching cognitive forcing strategies reduces cognitive error in the practice of emergency medicine. Two relevant papers were found using the described search strategy. The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of these papers are tabulated. There is currently little evidence that teaching cognitive forcing strategies reduces cognitive error in the practice of emergency medicine.

MeSH terms

  • Emergency Medicine / education
  • Humans
  • Medical Errors / prevention & control*
  • Physicians / psychology
  • Students, Medical / psychology
  • Teaching / standards*
  • Thinking*
  • Workforce