To better understand decision-making, researchers can create computational models—groups of equations that aim to predict what decisions people would make when faced with a set of choices. For example ...

Objectives To map existing literature on nurses’ contributions to medical decision-making in hospital care, the factors ...

Most people have had this experience: sitting in a doctor’s office, hearing a recommendation, and agreeing to move forward—often within minutes. It may seem like a simple, fact-based decision. But ...

Many of the challenges we address here were evident to the pioneers of medical decision analysis of the 1950s 7 and to scholars in subsequent decades 8-11 who conducted careful and creative studies of ...

The assessment of decision-making capacity in healthcare entails a structured evaluation of an individual’s ability to make informed choices about their own treatment and care. Central to this process ...

"Why haven't they scheduled your dad for his feeding tube placement? They just want another family conference." I sighed and told my mother we may have to fight. The physicians caring for my father ...

There is a disconnect between what we think happens when we make a decision and what actually happens in the brain during that process, suggests Indiana University Professor of Psychological and Brain ...

The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal ...