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Aiding the Decision Maker—A Decision Process Model

Ergonomics, 1969
Despite an increasing capability for automating various tasks there continues to be a requirement for man to serve as the decision element in many complex systems. The complexity and far-reaching consequences of many decisions impels a concern for improving decision-making perforrnance in man-machine systems.
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An introduction to patient decision aids

Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, 2012
Patient decision aids are a means of helping people make informed choices about healthcare that take into account their personal values and preferences. Decision aids are a part of a shared decision-making process, encouraging active participation by patients in healthcare decisions.1,2 Decision aids are relevant in many common ...
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Decision aids, empowerment, and shared decision making

BMJ, 2014
Each works or fails to work in patient-clinician conversations Finding unexpected results when testing our ideas is the basis of learning, experimentation, and scientific method. In a linked paper (doi:10.1136/bmj.g5651), Denig and colleagues report on a randomized trial of a decision aid for patients with type 2 diabetes.1 After much well executed ...
Ian, Hargraves, Victor M, Montori
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On the Convergence of Intelligent Decision Aids

2021
On the one hand, users’ decisionmaking in today’sweb is supported in numerous ways, with mechanisms ranging from manual search over automated recommendation to intelligent advisors. The focus on algorithmic accuracy, however, is questioned more and more.
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Difficult decisions: Ethics and AIDS

Journal of Sex Research, 1991
Persons with AIDS (PWAs), who are marked by a diminution of their immune systems, are catapulted into a very different social reality. Thus, special attention is given to the necessity for legal empowerment and occupational contagion in the delivery of health care services by medical professionals.
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The Dynamics of Humanitarian Aid Decisions

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013
AbstractHumanitarian aid can be seen as a political investment motivated by altruism or by economic benefits for the donor. Uncertainty in the returns to this investment may generate hysteresis effects and inertia in aid allocations. I model the allocation decisions of the three largest humanitarian aid donors: the US government, the UK government and ...
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Decision aids and uptake of screening

BMJ, 2010
Aids improve informed decision making, but not necessarily uptake Two linked papers assessed patient information in the prevention of bowel cancer: Kirkegaard and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.c5504) encouraged adherence with lifestyle recommendations,1 and Smith and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.c5370) facilitated informed screening choices.2 Smith and ...
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Decision Processes and Use of Decision Aids

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2005
The authors report the results of a controlled laboratory experiment comparing the decision processes of participants from Taiwan and Japan. These two nations have very close geographical, cultural, historical, and economic ties. The results show that decision processes of Taiwanese differed from those of Japanese.
P. C. Chu, Eric E. Spires, C. K. Farn, Toshiyuki Sueyoshi   +3 more
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An introduction to patient decision aids

BMJ, 2013
Patient decision aids are a means of helping people make informed choices about healthcare that take into account their personal values and preferences. Decision aids are a part of a shared decision making process, encouraging active participation by patients in healthcare decisions.1 2 Decision aids are relevant in many common healthcare decisions ...
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Decision Making and Decision Aids

1996
Systems can be described in terms of inputs transformed into outputs, as a process of fulfilment of a purpose, or the pursuit of a goal. The last is the equivalent of decision making and is a basic human activity. As a scientific area it is called praxeology and includes both normative and descriptive decision theory.
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