What Do Physicians Believe About the Way Decisions Are Made? A Pilot Study on Metacognitive Knowledge in the Medical Context

What Do Physicians Believe About the Way Decisions Are Made? A Pilot Study on Metacognitive Knowledge in the Medical Context

Metacognition relative to medical decision making has been poorly investigated to date. However, beliefs about methods of decision making (metacognition) play a fundamental role in determining the efficiency of the decision itself. In the present study, we investigated a set of beliefs that physicia...

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Main Authors: Paola Iannello, Valeria Perucca, Silvia Riva, Alessandro Antonietti, Gabriella Pravettoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2015-11-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
Subjects:
medical decision making
metacognition
self-awareness
emergency care
surgery
internal medicine
Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/979

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http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/979

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