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OBJECTIVE The authors examined whether physicians' use of computerized decision aids affects patient satisfaction and/or blame for medical outcomes. METHOD Experiment 1: Fifty-nine undergraduates read about a doctor who made either a correct or incorrect diagnosis and either used a decision aid or did not. All rated the quality of the doctor's decision and the likelihood of recommending the d...

OBJECTIVE To assess residents' propensity to display the sunk-cost effect, an irrational decision-making bias, in medical treatment decisions; and to compare residents' and undergraduates' susceptibility to the bias in non-medical, everyday behaviors. DESIGN Cross-sectional, in-person survey. SETTING Louisiana State University, two locations: Medical Center-Baton Rouge and Main Campus-Psych...