Respecting Human Autonomy in Critical Care Clinical Decision Support

Clinical Decision Support (CDS) aims at helping physicians optimize their decisions. However, as each patient is unique in characteristics and preferences, it difficult to define the optimal outcome. Human should retain autonomy over decisions, ensure that tradeoffs are made a way fits patient. We tend consider sense of not influencing decision-making. CDS improve decision-making, its very aim influence advocate for an alternative notion enabling physician make decisions accordance with professional goals values This perspective retains role gatekeeper safeguarding other human values, while letting go idea any way. Rather than trying refrain from incorporating into CDS, we instead value-aware actively supports considering values. suggest conversational AI approach enable become use story structures help user integrate facts data-driven learnings provided by own value judgements natural