Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The clinicians have two important tasks at hand.Arriving at a diagnosis is the most challenging and stimulating task to provide pain relief to suffering patients.When a symptomatic patient interacts with a clinician, a working hypothesis of a differential diagnosis is arrived at to investigate the patient for a definitive diagnosis.1 The other task of the clinician is to answer a query once it remains unsolved by conducting a series of research studies to generate evidence.The researcher conceptualizes and designs a study, collects, analyses, and interprets data and compares it with available evidence.This systematic approach, if unbiased, may provide a new solution to the clinical puzzle of arriving at a credible diagnosis and effective treatment.Bias is described as an error which may occur in clinical settings to arrive at a diagnosis and treat a patient.The bias may occur in the conception or design of a study or in the collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of research outcomes, which leads to conclusions that are systematically different from truth.The bias could be cognitive bias or publication bias.
Authors: Anil K Jain, Bhushan Shah
Language: English
Subfield: Family Practice
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4402136391