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background clinical reasoning basis clinical activities health team diagnostic reasoning perhaps critical physicians skills despite many advances medical errors reduced studies shown diagnostic errors made emergency rooms cognitive errors anchoring error identified common cognitive error clinical settings research intends determine frequency compare percentage anchoring bias perceived among faculty members versus residents emergency medicine department methods quasiexperimental study emergency medicines faculties residents evaluated clinical reasoning nine written clinical cases clinical data clinical case presented participants three pages based receiving clinical paraclinical information real situations end page participants asked write diagnoses data analyzed using oneway anova test spss software version 160 employed conduct statistical tests p value 005 considered statistically significant results seventyseven participants residency program emergency medical group volunteered participate study data showed faculties significantly higher writing correct diagnoses residents 66 vs 41 anchoring error ratio significantly lower residents 33 vs 75 addition number written diagnoses time writing diagnoses clinical experience faculties residents compared conclusion findings showed increasing clinical experience increased diagnostic accuracy changed cognitive medical errors faculties higher residents anchoring error ratio error could result exposure decisionmaking mode heuristic intuitive thinking faculties