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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

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Ethical issues for the plastic surgeon in a tumultuous health care system: dissecting the anatomy of a decision.

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...


The effects of time pressure and experience on nurses' risk assessment decisions: a signal detection analysis.

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...


Care for patients in the last months of life: the Belgian Sentinel Network Monitoring End-of-Life Care study.

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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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

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