Heuristic decision making in medicine

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-89

  Marewski, Julian N ^a   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biases; Bounded rationality; Decision aids; Ecological rationality; Fast and frugal heuristics; Medical decision making

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 84861659629     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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