Educational strategies in the health professions to mitigate cognitive and implicit bias impact on decision making: a scoping review

Table 5 Cognitive bias – approach to assessment

Cognitive bias/Number of studies	Reflection	Short-answer (case-based)	MCQ (case-based)
Anchoring bias (n=2)	[36]	[34]
Availability Bias (n=4)	[36]	[18, 34]	[37]
Confirmation bias (n=3)	[36]	[34]	[37]
Framing effect (n=1)	[36]
Premature closure (n=2)	[36]	[35]
Representativeness heuristic (n=1)			[37]
Search satisficing (n=3)	[36]	[18, 34]	[35]

Legend: MCQ Multiple Choice Question, ICBM Inventory of Cognitive Biases in Medicine

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