Evidence, Values, Guidelines and Rational Decision-making

Decision making in health and medicine Integrating evidence and values

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Decision making in health and medicine: integrating evidence and values / M.G. Myriam Hunink. .. [et al.] p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rational Decision Making

RATIONAL DECISION MAKING: Choosing among alternatives in a way that “properly” accords with the preferences and beliefs of an individual decision maker or those of a group making a joint decision; in particular, the subject as developed in decision theory [16] (see RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY), decision analysis [24], GAME THEORY [33], political theory [20], psychology [14] (see DECISION MAKING), an...

Distributed Rational Decision Making

Automated negotiation systems with self interested agents are becoming increas ingly important One reason for this is the technology push of a growing standardized communication infrastructure Internet WWW NII EDI KQML FIPA Concor dia Voyager Odyssey Telescript Java etc over which separately designed agents belonging to di erent organizations can interact in an open environment in real time and...

Qualitative evidence to improve guidelines and health decision-making

Sacred values in financial economic decision-making: Experimental evidence

Seminal work in finance and economics has studied theoretical models of ethical behavior. We provide experimental evidence for the role of a universal “sacred value,” namely, truth. We study this value in the context of earnings management, which is an important business setting where the conflict between personal gains and behavior consistent with the value of truth is particularly salient. We...