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Do patients' faces influence General Practitioners' cancer suspicions? A test of automatic processing of sociodemographic information.

Rosalind AdamRoberta GarauEdwin Amalraj RajaBenedict JonesMarie JohnstonPeter Murchie
Published in: PloS one (2017)
GPs' first impressions about cancer risk are influenced by patient age, gender, and ethnicity. Tackling GP cognitive biases could be a promising way of reducing cancer diagnostic delays, particularly for younger patients.
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