"Heuristics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Experience-based techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery that find a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal, but sufficient for a given set of goals.
| Descriptor ID |
D000066506
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.425.725.500 F02.463.785.810.500
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Heuristics" by people in Profiles.
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Cognitive perspectives on maintaining physicians' medical expertise: II. Acquiring, maintaining, and updating cognitive skills. Cogn Res Princ Implic. 2023 07 25; 8(1):47.
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Evolutionary Shortcuts via Multinucleotide Substitutions and Their Impact on Natural Selection Analyses. Mol Biol Evol. 2023 07 05; 40(7).
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Policing, health care, and institutional racism: Connecting history and heuristics. Health Serv Res. 2021 12; 56(6):1100-1103.
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Intracranial Pressure in Traumatic Brain Injury: From Thresholds to Heuristics. Crit Care Med. 2020 08; 48(8):1210-1213.
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Intracranial Pressure Threshold Heuristics in Traumatic Brain Injury: One, None, Many! Neurocrit Care. 2020 06; 32(3):672-676.
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In Response. Anesth Analg. 2019 11; 129(5):e173.
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Obtaining Knowledge in Pathology Reports Through a Natural Language Processing Approach With Classification, Named-Entity Recognition, and Relation-Extraction Heuristics. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2019 08; 3:1-8.
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Heuristics, Overconfidence, and Experience: Impact on Monitoring Depth of Neuromuscular Blockade. Anesth Analg. 2019 06; 128(6):1057-1059.
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Causal strength induction from time series data. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2018 04; 147(4):485-513.
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Searching for the best cause: Roles of mechanism beliefs, autocorrelation, and exploitation. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2016 08; 42(8):1233-56.