Classifying clinical decision making: A unifying approach

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 981-989

  Buckingham, Christopher D ^a,b   Adams, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Clinical reasoning; Decision making; Judgement; Medicine; Multidisciplinary collaboration; Nursing health care

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MODEL; NURSE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING PROCESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REVIEW; WORK;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; JOB DESCRIPTION; JUDGMENT; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSES; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING PROCESS; PATIENT CARE TEAM;

EID: 0034304703     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.t01-1-01565.x     Document Type: Article

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