Proxy decision making and dementia: Using Construal Level Theory to analyse the thoughts of decision makers

A hybrid decision making system using DEA and fuzzy models for supplier selection in the presence of multiple decision makers

Surrogate decision makers and proxy ownership: challenges of privacy management in health care decision making.

This study explored the communicative experiences of surrogates who served as decision makers for patients who were unable to convey health information and choices about treatment options. Drawing on assumptions from communication privacy management theory (Petronio, 2002), 35 surrogates were interviewed to explore how they navigated the role of guardian of patients' private health information ...

Staffas Decision-makers: the Merits of Decentralized Decision-making

During the 1950s and 1960s, research teams across the country searched for differences that explained why some organizations were highly successful while others were only marginally successful, if at all. Several of them came to similar explanations involving managerial treatment and use of their subordinates. Major researchers were Rensis Likert, Douglas McGregor, Robert R. Blake (withJane S. ...

Decision-making and dementia.

WHY: Patients have the right to participate in decisions about their care, e.g., diagnostic and treatment interventions, diet, ambulation, daily care, and end-of-life care. Consent to (or refusal of) diagnostic and treatment interventions requires that the patient demonstrate their ability to consider the benefits, burdens and risks of the decision. Whether or not an individual has the capacity...

A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: A novel method for eliciting decision makers' preferences and decision-making

BACKGROUND Decision curve analysis (DCA) has been proposed as an alternative method for evaluation of diagnostic tests, prediction models, and molecular markers. However, DCA is based on expected utility theory, which has been routinely violated by decision makers. Decision-making is governed by intuition (system 1), and analytical, deliberative process (system 2), thus, rational decision-makin...