CLINICIAN BIAS:
A general term to refer to any biases attributable to a clinician (e.g. physician), taking measurements, or making assessments, in a clinical setting1,2,3. Also, another term used to describe Observer Bias (systematic differences between a true value and a value reported by an observer), or Interviewer Bias (a bias that occurs when the personal qualities of an interviewer affect how and what data are recorded); but with specific relevance to hospital, or other clinical settings.
Clinician Bias may occur in research, or non-research related settings (i.e. it may affect measurements used for patient treatment, medical research, or both). Also see: Provider Bias, Rater Bias, Observer Bias, Interviewer Bias, Investigator Bias, Collection Method Related Bias, Assessment Bias, and Observation Bias.
References:
1. Lass NJ, Browning KN, Brown DM. Clinician bias: the effects of pretesting information on the evaluations of speech clinicians. Journal of communication disorders. 1975;8(2):105-13. (Link to Reference)
2. Verheijen E. Clinician bias on the low-resource workfloor. BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology. 2022;129(12):2001. (Link to Reference)
3. Jelks A, Cifuentes R, Ross MG. Clinician bias in fundal height measurement. Obstetrics and gynecology. 2007;110(4):892-9. (Link to Reference)