Decision Making - Research News and Information

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Medical decision-making capacity in mild cognitive impairment: a 3-year longitudinal study.

2 Nov 2008 OBJECTIVE: To investigate longitudinal change in the medical decision-making capacity (MDC) of patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) under different consent standards. METHODS: Eighty-eight healthy older controls and 116 patients ... Read more...

The guardians' perspective on paediatric cancer treatment in Malawi and factors affecting adherence.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: Abandonment of paediatric cancer treatment is a common problem in developing countries. Little is known about the guardians' perspective on cancer treatment in these countries, especially the factors that affect adherence. METHODS: ... Read more...

Introduction of shared electronic records: multi-site case study using diffusion of innovation theory.

21 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To explore the introduction of a centrally stored, shared electronic patient record (the summary care record (SCR)) in England and draw wider lessons about the implementation of large scale information technology projects in health care. ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Decision Making'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Reimbursement for patient and family meetings and the costs of care at the end of life. 10 Nov 2008
• Medical decision-making capacity in mild cognitive impairment: a 3-year longitudinal study. 2 Nov 2008
• Wrongful birth litigation and prenatal screening. 2 Nov 2008
• The guardians' perspective on paediatric cancer treatment in Malawi and factors affecting adherence. 30 Oct 2008
• Prenatal diagnosis: beyond decisions about termination. 30 Oct 2008
• Alternate ambulance transportation and destination. 30 Oct 2008
• Virtual colonoscopy accepted as primary colon cancer screening test. 26 Oct 2008
• Introduction of shared electronic records: multi-site case study using diffusion of innovation theory. 21 Oct 2008
• Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-inaccurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems. 20 Oct 2008
• Striate cortical lesions affect deliberate decision and control of saccade: implication for blindsight. 13 Oct 2008
• Explaining enhanced logical consistency during decision making in autism. 13 Oct 2008
• Should you go generic? 11 Oct 2008
• Clinical priority setting. 7 Oct 2008
• [Ethical choices in medically futile treatment] 7 Oct 2008
• [Withdrawing medically futile treatment--than ethics] 7 Oct 2008
• [Professionally defensible work is about good processes] 7 Oct 2008
• Posterior cingulate cortex mediates outcome-contingent allocation of behavior. 7 Oct 2008
• Interplay of orthography and semantics in reading: an event-related potential study. 6 Oct 2008
• Simple learning rules to cope with changing environments. 4 Oct 2008
• Diagnosis and classification of myelodysplastic syndrome: International Working Group on Morphology of myelodysplastic syndrome (IWGM-MDS) consensus proposals for the definition and enumeration of myeloblasts and ring sideroblasts. 4 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Decision Making'

Definition: The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.

Descriptor UI: D003657

Alternative terms: Decision Making;

Related Mesh Headings: Decision Support Techniques; Game Theory; Policy Making;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.373;

Technical Notes: not for a physician making a diagnostic decision: this is /diag or if GEN, DIAGNOSIS or DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL