Can avoidance of complications lead to biased healthcare decisions?
Imagine that you have just received a colon cancer diagnosis and need to choose between two different surgical treatments. One surgery, the ``complicated surgery,'' has a lower mortality rate (16\% vs. 20\%) but compared to the other surgery, the ``uncomplicated surgery,'' also c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
2006-07-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm06008.pdf |