Exploring the Impact of a Virtual Asynchronous Debriefing Method after a Virtual Simulation Game to Support Clinical Decision-Making

Comparing the Effect of Concept Mapping to Clinical Simulation on Emergency Medical Students` Clinical Decision Making

Introduction: Application of appropriate teaching techniques can increase decision-making skills in emergency settings. Considering the importance of decision-making for rescuers in prevention of deteriorating problems and maintaining patient’s safety in the first level of care, the aim of this study was to compare the effect of two educational methods (concept mapping and clinical simulation) ...

ORPHEUS: Mental Simulation as Support for Decision-Making in a Virtual Agent

Using mental simulation as a means of selecting actions for an agent is not new to the scientific community, but implementations from literature focus on specific scenarios and strategies built by domain-experts. In this paper, we propose a generic decision-making agent architecture which uses mental simulation. Our architecture allows an agent to predict both physical phenomena and behavior of...

Clinical Decision-Making: a Way to Professional Empowerment in Nursing

Background. The dynamic and uncertain nature of health care environment requires nurses to be competent decision makers and to respond to the clients needs. Recently, the public and the government have criticized Iranian nurses because of a low quality patient care. However, the nurses’ views and experiences concern- ing the factors affecting their clinical practice and clinical decision making...

Common weights for the evaluation of decision-making units with nonlinear virtual inputs and outputs

In this paper, by investigating the common weights concept and DEA models with nonlinear virtual inputs/outputs, we introduce a model for evaluating the decision making units with nonlinear virtual inputs and outputs based on the common weights.

Virtual Patient Simulation in HIV: An Online Educational Tool to Improve Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making