the attitude-behavior discrepancy in medical decision making

The Attitude-Behavior Discrepancy in Medical Decision Making

BACKGROUND In medical practice, the dissatisfaction of patients about medical decisions made by doctors is often regarded as the fuse of doctor-patient conflict. However, a few studies have looked at why there are such dissatisfactions. OBJECTIVES This experimental study aimed to explore the discrepancy between attitude and behavior within medical situations and its interaction with framing d...

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...

Decision making in medical domains

Methods developed in the field of artificial intelligence and especially in machine learning have seen an increasing popularity among professionals in the medical domain. Medical doctors are often faced with decisions regarding the treatments their patients should undertake and AI has developed specific techniques that can suggest the most fortunate choices based on past experience. During my s...

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...

The Faculty Members' Contribution in Decision Making Process of Schools' Administrators in Medical University of Isfahan

Introduction: The faculty members' participation in the decisions made by administrators lies on a continuum with two extremes of thorough participation to no participation. A study on the process of these decision makings can illuminate the present situation in order to improve the participation status. The purpose of this study was to determine the mean of faculty members' participation rate ...

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