Medical and Pharmacy Coverage Decision Making at the Population Level

Ethical decision-making, passivity and pharmacy.

BACKGROUND Increasing interest in empirical ethics has enhanced understanding of healthcare professionals' ethical problems and attendant decision-making. A four-stage decision-making model involving ethical attention, reasoning, intention and action offers further insights into how more than reasoning alone may contribute to decision-making. AIMS To explore how the four-stage model can incre...

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...

Medical Decision Making and the Counting of Uncertainty Running title : Ye ; Medical decision making and uncertainty

Formal and Informal Decision-making at Eu Level

The paper deals with the issue of decisional efficiency at European level, given EU’s large bureaucracy and complex decision-making system. The functionality of institutions seems to be assured, to large extent, by the development of a parallel system of informal (or semi-formal) rules and procedures for negotiation and decision-making, which complements and sometimes replaces the formal proced...

Medical Decision Making using

Bayesian Belief Networks (bbns) play a relevant role in the eld of Artiicial Intelligence in Medicine and they have been successfully applied to a wide variety of medical domains. An appealing character of bbns is that they easily extend into a complete decision-theoretic formalism known as Innuence Diagrams (ids). Unfortunately, bbns and ids require a large amount of information that is not al...