Clinical decision making: an introduction

The principles of clinical decision making: an introduction to decision analysis.

INTRODUCTION The ability to make the rational decisions that lead to optimum therapeutic outcomes is one of the cardinal characteristics of an outstanding clinician. Nonetheless, most of the energy expended in the education of medical students and house officers is directed into teaching a huge body of facts and methods for gathering and interpreting data; little or no attention is given to the...

Survey nurses’ collaboration in clinical decision making

Introduction: Nurses are the largest care delivering group. They have to judge in clinical ‎setting and by team work detect and solve patients’ problem in nursing function domains. ‎Collaboration in decision making helps this function. ‎  Objective: Present study aims to determine the level of nurses’ collaboration in clinical ‎decision making employed in edu...

Introduction to Decision Making Methods

“Decision making is the study of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision maker. Making a decision implies that there are alternative choices to be considered, and in such a case we want not only to identify as many of these alternatives as possible but to choose the one that best fits with our goals, objectives, desires, values, and so on.” (Har...

An Introduction to Clinical Decision Support Systems

Active learning and decision making: an introduction to the collection

The importance of exploratory behaviors by which agents actively sample information has been long appreciated in a range of disciplines. However, because of their complexity and cognitive nature, these behaviors have been difficult to characterize. In recent years, a resurgence of interest in this question has been based on a confluence of ideas from multiple fields, including machine learning,...