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Pursuit of "endpoint diagnoses" as a cognitive forcing strategy to avoid premature diagnostic closure.

Kaplan HM, Birnbaum JF, Kulkarni PA. Pursuit of “endpoint diagnoses” as a cognitive forcing strategy to avoid premature diagnostic closure. Diagnosis (Berl). 2022;9(4):421-429. doi:10.1515/dx-2022-0013.

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December 21, 2022
Kaplan HM, Birnbaum JF, Kulkarni PA. Diagnosis (Berl). 2022;9(4):421-429.
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Premature diagnostic closure, also called anchoring bias, relies on initial diagnostic impression without continuing to explore differential diagnoses. This commentary proposes a cognitive forcing strategy of “endpoint diagnosis,” or continuing to ask “why” until additional diagnostic evaluations have been exhausted. The authors describe four common contexts when endpoint diagnoses are not pursued or reached.

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Kaplan HM, Birnbaum JF, Kulkarni PA. Pursuit of “endpoint diagnoses” as a cognitive forcing strategy to avoid premature diagnostic closure. Diagnosis (Berl). 2022;9(4):421-429. doi:10.1515/dx-2022-0013.