{
  "abstract": "Psychologists, philosophers and others concerned with decision-making maintain that rationality is one of its most important features. In the context of clinical decision-making across all disciplines in medicine this is its most significant component, especially from the standpoint of diagnosis. Thus, for the clinical decision-making that underlies diagnosis, the best possible decision about a patient, given their symptoms and signs, their physical examination and the results of judicious testing and imaging, needs to be a rational one. But this may be easier said than done. Where rationality fails, decision failures follow. A schema for where and how rationality failure may occur, leading to decision failure, is shown in figure 1.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Pat Croskerry"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Department, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Michael Clancy"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada",
        "Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Samuel Campbell"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Under threat: cognition in emergency medicine",
  "uid": "d212440b-fe54-5fda-95e3-c46afbbf81bb"
}