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Consistency in medical decision-making is ideally expected. This includes consistency between different clinicians so that the same patient will receive the same diagnosis regardless of the assessing clinician. It also encompasses reliability as an individual clinician meaning at any given time or context, we apply the same process and principles to ensure the decisions we make do not deviate significantly from our peers or indeed our own past decisions. However, consistency in decision-making can be challenged when working within a busy healthcare system. We discuss the concept of 'noise' and explore how it affects decision-making in acute presentations of transient neurology where doctors can differ in terms of their diagnostic decisions.

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