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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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Decision aid reliance: Modeling the effects of decision aid reliability and pressures to perform on reliance behavior

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2011
We investigate the effects of decision aid reliability and pressure to perform on decision aid reliance. A total of 403 students took part in a four (pressures to perform: one through four) by five (decision aid reliability: 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% and 90%) between-participants experiment.
Gomaa, M.I., Hunton, J.E., Vaassen, E.H.J., Carree, M.A.   +3 more
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Resolving the Decision Aid Paradox

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015
Formostmedical treatment decisions, there ismore than one reasonable choice.Althoughbacterialmeningitisneedsantibiotics,decisionsabouttreatmentsforconditionssuchasclinically localized prostate cancer havemany options, including observation,radiationtherapy,andsurgery.Inturn,eachofthesebroad treatmentcategorieshasvariants:watchfulwaiting, active ...
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The effect of computerized decision aids on decision time and decision quality

Information & Management, 1991
Abstract This article presents an experiment which examines the efficacy of computer decision support systems. The results are that in the circumstances of this experiment (a decision problem requiring non-overload multidimensional analysis and integration), a computer decision support system neither reduces the time required to come to a decision ...
Richard A. Coll, Joan H. Coll, Donna Rein   +2 more
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The evaluation of decision aids: the role of the decision owner

Medical Informatics, 1990
This paper is a discussion of the role patient preferences should play in the evaluation of medical decision aids. The use of 'practitioner acceptability' as an unproblematic criterion in the evaluation of such aids is questioned, along with the wider imbalance in resource allocation between research relevant to the 'technical' and 'value' aspects of ...
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Decision Aids and the Law

The Lancet, 1989
D, Brahams, J, Wyatt
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Interval Analysis for Decision Aiding

2015
The interval analysis for decision aiding based on the possibility theory is introduced. The interval analysis provides a new paradigm of data analysis which is based on the idea that the variability of the data is not always caused by the error but by the intrinsic variety of the systems outputs.
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Decision science or decision-aid science?

European Journal of Operational Research, 1993
The concepts, models and procedures used in Operational Research and Decision Aid (OR-DA), unlike their counterparts in the physical and natural sciences, can scarcely claim to describe realities which would be independent of the observer and which would exist independently of other human actors.
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Current Best Practice for Presenting Probabilities in Patient Decision Aids: Fundamental Principles

Medical Decision Making, 2021
Carissa Bonner, Lyndal Trevena, Wolfgang Gaissmaier   +2 more
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Decision Aid

2022
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