Tracing the decision-making process of physicians with a Decision Process Matrix

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hausmann, Daniel ^a   Zulian, Cristina ^a   Battegay, Edouard ^b   Zimmerli, Lukas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Confidence; Decision process matrix; Information search; Medical decision making

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRAWING; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEMORY; RESIDENT; SKILL; THEORETICAL MODEL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84992178599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-016-0369-1     Document Type: Article

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