 Heuristics
"Heuristics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Experience-based techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery that find a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal, but sufficient for a given set of goals.
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D000066506
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F02.463.425.725.500 F02.463.785.810.500
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Heuristics" by people in Profiles.
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Selvaraj S, Greene SJ, Ayodele I, Alhanti B, Allen LA, Lewsey SC, Adusumalli S, Reza N, Hernandez AF, Yancy CW, Jena AB, Fonarow GC, Bhatt DL. Assessing Heuristic Bias During Care for Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure: Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. Circ Heart Fail. 2023 02; 16(2):e010069.
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Li M, Colby H. Physicians' flawed heuristics in the delivery room. Science. 2021 Oct 15; 374(6565):260-261.
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Gillman AS, Vo JB, Nohria A, Ferrer RA. Decision Science Can Inform Clinical Trade-Offs Regarding Cardiotoxic Cancer Treatments. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2021 08; 5(4).
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Grubenhoff JA, Ziniel SI, Bajaj L, Hyman D. Pediatric faculty knowledge and comfort discussing diagnostic errors: a pilot survey to understand barriers to an educational program. Diagnosis (Berl). 2019 06 26; 6(2):101-107.
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McAuliffe WHB, Forster DE, Pedersen EJ, McCullough ME. Experience with anonymous interactions reduces intuitive cooperation. Nat Hum Behav. 2018 12; 2(12):909-914.
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Hartmann DJ, McLaughlin O. Heuristic Patterns of Ethical Decision Making. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2018 12; 13(5):561-572.
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Scherer LD, Shaffer VA, Caverly T, Scherer AM, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Kullgren JT, Fagerlin A. The role of the affect heuristic and cancer anxiety in responding to negative information about medical tests. Psychol Health. 2018 02; 33(2):292-312.
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Niker F, Reiner PB, Felsen G. Pre-Authorization: A Novel Decision-Making Heuristic That May Promote Autonomy. Am J Bioeth. 2016 05; 16(5):27-9.
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Rylander M, Guerrasio J. Heuristic errors in clinical reasoning. Clin Teach. 2016 Aug; 13(4):287-90.
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Gross CP, Fried TR, Tinetti ME, Ross JS, Genao I, Hossain S, Wolf E, Lewis CL. Decision-making and cancer screening: a qualitative study of older adults with multiple chronic conditions. J Geriatr Oncol. 2015 Mar; 6(2):93-100.
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