Faculté et Recherche
Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis
04 juin
2024
11H20 - 12H35
Jouy-en-Josas
Anglais
Participer
Département d'Economie et Sciences de la Décision
Intervenant: Filip Matejka (CERGUE Prague)
Room T-012
Abstract :
We study impact of situational factors on decision making of physicians. Using detailed audit log data from emergency rooms, we access how cognitive load during the shift affects future choices of tests as well as the treatment. We draw upon theories of information acquisition to infer how much is physicians' knowledge refined when making a particular choice. For instance, we find that high cognitive load implies that physicians make less informed choices in the future, perhaps choose to think less, and instead substitute this with more orders of diagnostic tests.