Reflection on Clinical Decision Science: I finally understand how applying the Fagan nomogram can change medical 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) ...

How Can Decision Making Be Improved? 1 Running Head: HOW CAN DECISION MAKING BE IMPROVED? How Can Decision Making Be Improved?

The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. Thanks to fifty years of research by judgment and decision making scholars, psychologists have developed a detailed picture of the ways in which human judgment is bounded. This paper argues that the time has come to focus attention on the search for strategies that will improve bounded judgment becau...

Medical Decision Making Neural Networks in Clinical Medicine on Behalf Of: Society for Medical Decision Making

How Can I Change My Patients' Treatment Decision Making by Becoming a Nurse Scientist?
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"What would you do?" I have heard this question numerous times throughout my nursing career by patients and families affected by cancer. As a pediatric blood and marrow transplantation nurse, I have often seen patients and their families wrestle with difficult treatment decisions. I have witnessed parents struggle between beginning end-of-life care for their child, or pursuing a risky but poten...

How can we improve amniocentesis decision-making?

The decision to have an amniocentesis entails a trade-off between a risk of procedure associated miscarriage and the benefit of obtaining diagnostic information to identify Down syndrome or other chromosomal aneuploidy. Ideally, this trade-off is informed by first and second trimester pre-natal screening tests, such that women with low risk screening test results are not encouraged to have an a...