Welcome to the CoMind Lab!

Our research group studies decision-making under uncertainty, such as in the emergency room, to gain a clearer understanding of how medical diagnosis and other high-risk decisions can be improved.

Ongoing study

How is teamwork experienced in the diagnostic process of emergency care?

The ethnographic research team at our lab explores this question through in-depth observations and interviews in Swiss emergency departments.

Learn more about the team and the current project.

News

September 2026: Juliane, Maike and Lukas present first results of the ethnographic study in the emergency room, the diagnostic tool project and on self-monitoring at the 20th Behavioural Sciences Applied to Healthcare in Amsterdam.

August 2026: Lukas takes part in the AOW Writing Workshop 2026 of the DGPs at the Technical University of Braunschweig.

June 2026: Juliane talks about the power of teamwork during ED diagnostic decision making at the 25th International Conference on Emergency Medicine in Hamburg.

The CoMind Lab is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) with a Starting Grant to Prof. Dr. Juliane Kämmer (project number TMSGI1_218047). The lab is part of the Diagnostic Quality Lab at the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland.