Common Inpatient Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning: Practical Applications for the Hospitalist

Misdiagnoses often begin with a split‑second shortcut. This interactive, on‑demand course helps hospitalists explain how heuristics and biases drive inpatient error, describe patterns like anchoring, availability, premature closure, framing, search satisficing, and diagnosis momentum, identify base rates and enact the effortful pause, apply diagnostic frameworks, and articulate safer documentation to mitigate harm across academic, community, perioperative, and urgent care settings.

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Availability

On-Demand

Expires on Apr 30, 2027

Cost

Member: $0.00

Non-Member: $55.00

Credit Offered

0.75 CME Credit

0.75 ABIM-MOC Point

0.75 Participation Credit

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Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, learners should be able to:

Explain how cognitive biases and heuristics relate to diagnostic errors.
Describe examples of common heuristics and cognitive biases that affect clinical care in hospital medicine such as representativeness, availability, anchoring, premature closure, confirmation, search satisfying, diagnosis momentum and framing.
Articulate strategies including incorporation of probability and base rates, enacting the effortful pause, utilizing diagnostic frameworks, asking why and harnessing the power of effective documentation to mitigate diagnostic errors in inpatient medicine.

Faculty

Anand Jagannath

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Faculty Disclosures
The individuals in control of content for this activity have no relevant relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies to disclose unless listed here. Any relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of this activity.

Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MOC Credit Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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