Medical Decision Making
11Medical ethics — is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology …
12Medical diagnosis — (often simply termed diagnosis) refers both to the process of attempting to determine and/or identify a possible disease or disorder (and diagnosis in this sense can also be termed (medical) diagnostic procedure), and to the opinion reached by… …
13Decision theory — in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics is concerned with identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues relevant in a given decision, its rationality, and the resulting optimal decision. It is closely related to …
14Medical Technology Assessment — (MTA) is the objective evaluation of a medical technology regarding its safety and performance, its (future) impact on clinical and non clinical patient outcomes as well as its interactive effects on economical, organizational, social, juridical… …
15Medical software — Logo, by Harry Gouvas In computers, medical software is a significant branch of software engineering. Many medical devices that monitor or control patients are predominantly controlled by software. Medical devices are frequently regulated and… …
16Medical humanities — is an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and… …
17Medical home — The medical home,[1] also known as the patient centered medical home (PCMH), is defined as an approach to providing comprehensive primary care... that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal providers, and when… …
18Consensus (medical) — Medical consensus is a public statement on a particular aspect of medical knowledge available at the time it was written, and that is generally agreed upon as the evidence based, state of the art (or state of science) knowledge by a… …
19Decision fatigue — Candy and snacks are placed close to market cash registers to take advantage of shoppers decision fatigue.[1] In decision making and psychology, decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions made by an individual, after a long …
20Medical error — A medical error may be defined as a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. This might include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior,… …
