From sense making to decision making when living with cancer

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Making sense of cancer.

Nurses caring for patients with cancer do so at varying stages of the disease trajectory from diagnosis to death. Having an understanding of cancer biology, potential causes and classification should enable you to understand the treatment options and to communicate more effectively with patients, their families and friends.

Multi-ontology sense making: a new simplicity in decision making.

Imagine organising a birthday party for a group of young children. Would you agree a set of learning objectives with their parents in advance of the party? Would those objectives be aligned with the mission statement for education in the society to which you belong? Would you create a project plan for the party with clear milestones associated with empirical measures of achievement? Would you s...

Comparing uncertainty data in epistemic and ontic sense used to decision making problem

In the paper aspect of comparability alternatives in decision making problem by imprecise or incomplete information isexamined. In particular, new definitions of transitivity based on the measure of the intensity preference between pairsof alternatives in epistemic and ontic case is presented and its application to solve decision making problem is proposed.

From shared decision making to patient-centered decision making

Shared decision making involving patients and physicians has gained adherents in Israel and other countries and has many virtues. This commentary argues that medical decision making should ideally be shaped by the particular needs and preferences of the patient, which may be to share in decision making, or at times call for a physician to assume full responsibility for decisions or, at the othe...