Diagnostic error is a pervasive problem in healthcare with approximately one-third of adverse events in hospitals attributed to a failure in the diagnostic process. Cognitive biases are systematic, often unconscious, automatic patterns of thought that sometimes skew thinking and are considered a major contributor to diagnostic error. More than 100 different biases have been described that affect clinical decision-making, and the challenge for educators and clinicians is bringing the conceptual knowledge of cognitive bias to the bedside in an applicable and useful way to mitigate the effects of cognitive bias in diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChild Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
April 2025
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
April 2025
Psychiatric assessment of young children differs from that of older children and adolescents. It requires flexibility and strong observational skills, an understanding of the child's caregiver relationships and the environment from a developmental perspective, as well as critical cultural and social considerations. This article outlines practical aspects for structuring the evaluation and the physical setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The transition into a long-term care facility (LTCF) is difficult for older adults, prompting calls for clinicians to help guide and plan. Yet we know little about how those with lived experience of moving into an LTCF would advise others.
Methods: We conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with nursing home (NH) and assisted living (AL) residents within 6 months of moving into an urban non-profit continuing care retirement community in California between 2023 and 2024.
This Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in 262 μb^{-1} of ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collision data at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.36 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that exploits the properties of clusters of hits reconstructed in the innermost silicon detector layers is introduced to study highly ionizing particles in heavy-ion data.
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