ABSTRACT
As we have seen throughout this book, clinicians face many substantial challenges when making decisions. They must contend with the ceaseless change in clinical evidence and the resulting challenge to keep knowledge up-to-date. Decision-making is best when there is preexisting experience with a specific circumstance, but it is challenging when conditions are new to the reasoner. Finally, our decisions are distorted by inherent biases both in the way we estimate probabilities and in the way we assign utilities to outcomes.
