ASHP PODCAST: The Impact of Disease Overestimation and Anchoring Bias in Antimicrobial Prescribing Behavior

The first information a health care professional receives about a patient can heavily influence antimicrobial prescribing, for better or for worse. Professor Dan Morgan studied the habits of primary care physicians and found that the practitioners tended to overestimate the probability of disease before and after testing. Morgan urges providers to become familiar with diagnostic probability as a key factor to interpreting and applying test results. 

Arjun Srinivasan, MD, Associate Director at the CDC, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion

Dan Morgan, MD, Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine

Anna Dopp, PharmD, Senior Director of Clinical Guidelines and Quality Improvement a

ASHP (American Society for Health-System Pharmacists)
January 4, 2022