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CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Cognitive Dispositions to Respond

Reviewed and revised 8 December 2014 OVERVIEW Cognitive Dispositions to Respond (CDRs) or cognitive biases are:  “Predictable tendencies, or biases, to react to contextual clues that are largely unconscious and may contribute to flaws in reasoning; a mental state that embraces…

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You are handed over a patient by a colleague (that's a 'handoff' to you Yanks)... He says he would usually send a patient like this home, but as the d-dimer is pending he suggests the patient should wait for the result.