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Decision Making - Research News and Information
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Definition of 'Decision Making'The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea. Common names: Decision Making |
Oct 2008 
BACKGROUND: Society anticipates that plastic surgeons will make ethical decisions that are solely in the best interest of their patients. However, a variety of competing factors exert an influence on all decision-making... Read more...
17 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Time pressure and, occasionally, suboptimal assessment decisions are features of nursing in acute care. OBJECTIVES: To explore the effect of generic and specialist clinical experience on the ability to... Read more...
8 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Population-based studies monitoring end-of-life care are lacking. This study describes involvement of caregivers, access to specialist palliative care, treatment goals (cure, life-prolonging, or palliation),... Read more...
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Latest indexed articles for 'Decision Making'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Ethical issues for the plastic surgeon in a tumultuous health care system: dissecting the anatomy of a decision. Oct 2008
- The effects of time pressure and experience on nurses' risk assessment decisions: a signal detection analysis. 17 Sep 2008
- Care for patients in the last months of life: the Belgian Sentinel Network Monitoring End-of-Life Care study. 8 Sep 2008
- Titrating guidance: a model to guide physicians in assisting patients and family members who are facing complex decisions. 8 Sep 2008
- Oral healthcare for older people: 'I can't afford not to go to the dentist, but can I afford it?'. 5 Sep 2008
- Resuscitation decisions for premature newborns.
Sep 2008 - Values parents apply to decision-making regarding delivery room resuscitation for high-risk newborns. Sep 2008
- From suspicion of physical child abuse to reporting: primary care clinician decision-making. Sep 2008
- Discerning patterns of human immunodeficiency virus risk in healthy young adults. Sep 2008
- Radial artery harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting: a stepwise-made decision. Sep 2008
- "Surgery is certainly one good option": quality and time-efficiency of informed decision-making in surgery. Sep 2008
- Ethics in the midst of therapeutic evolution. Sep 2008
- Impairment and severity: how ED physicians decide to override an impaired patient's refusal. Sep 2008
- Informed decision-making and colorectal cancer screening: is it occurring in primary care? Sep 2008
- Modeling the decision to undergo colorectal cancer screening: insights on patient preventive decision making. Sep 2008
- Decisions for life made in the perinatal period: who decides and on which standards? Sep 2008
- What is awareness of emotion and how does it aid rational decision making?: reply to Ellis. Sep 2008
- Evidence that logical reasoning depends on conscious processing. Sep 2008
- Commentary to Note by Seth: experiments show what post-decision wagering measures. Sep 2008
- Post-decision wagering measures metacognitive content, not sensory consciousness. Sep 2008
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Technical information about 'Decision Making'
Definition: The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.
Descriptor UI: D003657
Alternative terms: Decision Making;
Related Mesh Headings: Decision Support Techniques; Game Theory; Policy Making;
Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;
Tree Number: F02.463.785.373;
Technical Notes: not for a physician making a diagnostic decision: this is /diag or if GEN, DIAGNOSIS or DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL