Braving Difficult Choices Alone: Children's and Adolescents' Medical Decision Making

Braving Difficult Choices Alone: Children's and Adolescents' Medical Decision Making

OBJECTIVE What role should minors play in making medical decisions? The authors examined children's and adolescents' desire to be involved in serious medical decisions and the emotional consequences associated with them. METHODS Sixty-three children and 76 adolescents were presented with a cover story about a difficult medical choice. Participants were tested in one of four conditions: (1) ow...

Integrated Decision Making – The Choices

From Medical Decision-making to Medical-cost-comparative Decision-making.

WHEN A PHYSICIAN GATHERS A PATIENT’S history, runs diagnostic tests and performs an evaluation, he or she is performing medicine’s most fundamental act: medical decision-making. Patient care is all about physicians bringing their education, training and personal experience to bear with a particular patient and his or her particular symptoms, disease or injury. Frequently, the course of treatmen...

Making Difficult Choices Ethical Commissioning Guidance to General Practitioners

This guidance is for general practitioners, and particularly GPs who will have a role as commissioners in clinical commissioning groups in England. Ethics and commissioning are big subjects. This document focuses on the following questions:  When resources are limited, and when the consequences of our decisions affect the lives of many thousands of people, how can we decide which treatments 1 ...

Making choices: the neurophysiology of visual-saccadic decision making.

Imagine the decisions you might make while playing a simple game like 'matching pennies'. At each play, you and your opponent, say the mathematician John vonNeumann, each lay down a penny heads or tails up. If both pennies show the same side, vonNeumann wins, if not, you win. Before each play, you have the subjective experience of deciding what to do: of choosing whether to play heads or tails....