A Quality Assurance Committee Is Conducting an Assessment of Diagnostic

A quality assurance committee is conducting an assessment of diagnostic errors related to myocardial infarction (MI) in the emergency department.  The committee finds that clinicians were 4 times more likely to miss MI in women age 60-70 compared to men of the same age.  Women were more likely to have a chief complaint of episodic substernal chest pressure exacerbated by mental stress and were incorrectly diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease.  Which of the following factors is most likely responsible for this finding?

A) Anchoring bias
B) Availability heuristic
C) Knowledge deficiency
D) Latent error

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