Decision makimg Flashcards
(12 cards)
What are the main steps in the clinical decision-making process?
Data collection (patient assessment), Monitoring, Clinical intervention, Judgement, Reasoning
What are the key elements to assess during data collection in clinical decision-making?
Presentation, drug history, co-morbidities, clinical appearance, vital signs, patient concerns, psychological cues
How does ‘perception’ fit into clinical decision making?
It involves recognizing environmental elements such as symptoms, disease, medications, and patient appearance.
What does ‘comprehension’ mean in the context of decision making?
Understanding how collected information affects pharmaceutical management and assessing the significance of findings.
What is ‘projection’ in clinical decision making?
Short- and long-term forecasting of treatment outcomes including safety, efficacy, and adherence.
What are common types of reasoning in clinical decision-making?
Deductive, Hypothetical-deductive, Inductive, Abductive, Rule-based, Probabilistic
What cognitive biases should clinicians be aware of?
Fixation, Anchoring, Representativeness, Availability, Confirmation bias
What is anchoring bias in clinical decision making?
Relying too heavily on an initial piece of information (the ‘anchor’) when making decisions.
What is availability bias?
Overestimating the likelihood of events based on their recent occurrence or vividness.
What is representativeness bias?
Judging probability based on how much something fits a stereotype rather than actual statistical probability.
What is Bayesian thinking?
A method that updates the probability of a hypothesis based on new evidence using prior probability (base rate).
What are the three core concerns in decision making regarding treatment?
Safety, Efficacy, Adherence
