Heuristic bias in perception of medical students relating to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

Autor: Rie Kojima, Tatsuya Nishiuchi, Yoshie Kubota, Ikuo Ota, Kohei Ichinohashi, Tomohide Matsushima, Toshifumi Uejima, Hironori Shigeoka, Atsushi Hiraide
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Resuscitation Plus, Vol 3, Iss , Pp 100023- (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-5204
DOI: 10.1016/j.resplu.2020.100023
Popis: Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the perceptions of medical students with respect to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests focusing on the frequency and survival and to identify potential problems in resuscitation education. Methods: Fourth-year medical students in a six-year undergraduate educational system were asked to guess the number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with cardiac etiology per year in Japan, related data such as the one-month survival rate from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with cardiac etiology and the number of deaths from traffic accidents for comparison. The guesses of students were compared with actual statistical data. Results: The incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests was clearly underestimated by the students compared to the real statistics. The median guessed number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests ranged from 6000 to 20,000 while the real statistics ranged from 73.023 to 78.302 by year (P ​
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