Equivocation in EEG reporting: the clinician's response

Evidence is presented that about 29% of the time that an electroencephalographer feels he needs to equivocate about the findings in an EEG, the clinician interprets, or at least recalls, the EEG without this equivocation. When there is a lack of recall of an equivocal report, the clinician's error is usually in the direction of considering that the record has been interpreted by the electroencephalographer as being abnormal.