Clinical decision-making: coping with uncertainty

Clinical decision-making: coping with uncertainty.

Reliable research and audit information are essential to increasing medical knowledge and improving health service delivery. However there are limits to available information in terms of quality, reliability, and applicability. Furthermore , however much information is gathered, there will always be a degree of uncertainty at the point of making clinical decisions with individual patients. Unre...

Decision Making with Uncertainty

In this paper we discuss decision making based on incomplete knowledge. Asthe results of our decisions have always some uncertainties in these cases, we developeda method to measure the advantages brought by those possible solutions of our problem,which makes our decision making problem easier. Our proposal is entirely formulizedwithin the so called classical two valued logic, so it has a solid...

Decision making with uncertainty

Relationship Between Nurses’ Emotional Intelligence with Clinical Decision-Making

Introduction: Higher levels of emotional intelligence have been associated with better personal practice. Clinical decision-making, as the best solution for patientschr('39') problems, is a crucial factor in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between nurseschr('39') emotional intelligence and clinical decision making. Methods: This study is a correlation...

Clinical decision making: its relation with critical thinking

Introduction: Clinical decision making as a fundamental part of nursing profession effects ‎quality of nursing care the most. Nurse as a clinical decision maker uses critical thinking in ‎providing proficient care. Evaluation of data and choosing proper intervention to reach a ‎correct decision needs skillful thinking. Present studies related to critical thinking and clinical ‎d...