For example, one study succeeded in substantially improving clinicians' prior overestimations of the probability of streptococcal pharyngitis, but the proportion of patients prescribed antibiotics showed a trend towards increasing. 17 Nevertheless, expanded use of shared decision-making tools holds great promise in helping physicians avoid cognitive biases in their estimates of probabilities of adverse events.
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Assessing the impact of colonoscopy complications on use of colonoscopy among primary care physicians and other connected physicians: an observational study of older Americans.
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