Changing the law on decision making for mentally incapacitated adults

Can we improve treatment decision-making for incapacitated patients?

When patients cannot make their own treatment decisions, surrogates typically step in to do it for them. Surrogate decision-making is far from ideal, of course, as the surrogate may not know what the patient prefers or what best promotes her interests. One way to improve it would be to arm surrogates with information about what patients in similar circumstances tend to prefer, allowing them to ...

New York enacts surrogate decision-making legislation for incapacitated patients.

Sensitivity Analysis of SAW Technique: the Impact of Changing the Decision Making Matrix Elements on the Final Ranking of Alternatives

Most of data in a multi attribute decision making (MADM) problem are unstable and changeable, and thus sensitivity analysis can effectively contribute to making proper decisions. Here, we offer a new method for sensitivity analysis of multi-attribute decision making problems so that by changing one element of decision making matrix, we can determine changes in the results of a decision making p...

Changing in the Reaction Time Causes the Confidence Matching in Group Decision Making

Introduction: Others’ decision could constantly affect our decisions. There are numerous studies which revealed this effect properly. The social influence could affect most of the decision parameters, especially the confidence.  Recently, an interesting study showed that participants tend to match their confidence to each other while they preserve their decision accuracy in a group decision mak...

Can We Improve Treatment Decision-Making for Incapacitated Patients? by ANNETTE RID AND DAVID WENDLER

When patients cannot make their own treatment decisions, surrogates typically step in to do it for them. Surrogate decision-making is far from ideal, of course, as the surrogate may not know what the patient prefers or what best promotes her interests. One way to improve it would be to arm surrogates with information about what patients in similar circumstances tend to prefer, allowing them to ...