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  2. Doctor–patient relationship - Wikipedia

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    Shared decision-making involves both the doctor and patient being involved in decisions about treatment. There are varied perspective on what shared decision making involves, but the most commonly used definition involves the sharing of information by both parties, both parties taking steps to build consensus, and reaching an agreement about ...

  3. Pharmacy and Therapeutics - Wikipedia

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    Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) is a committee at a hospital or a health insurance plan that decides which drugs will appear on that entity's drug formulary.The committee usually consists of healthcare providers involved in prescribing, dispensing, and administering medications, as well as administrators who evaluate medication use. [1]

  4. Evidence-based medicine - Wikipedia

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    For the purposes of medical education and individual-level decision making, five steps of EBM in practice were described in 1992 [58] and the experience of delegates attending the 2003 Conference of Evidence-Based Health Care Teachers and Developers was summarized into five steps and published in 2005. [59]

  5. Receiver operating characteristic - Wikipedia

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    A classification model (classifier or diagnosis [7]) is a mapping of instances between certain classes/groups.Because the classifier or diagnosis result can be an arbitrary real value (continuous output), the classifier boundary between classes must be determined by a threshold value (for instance, to determine whether a person has hypertension based on a blood pressure measure).

  6. Health informatics - Wikipedia

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    Ledley and Lusted's article has remained influential for decades, especially within the field of medical decision making. [ 37 ] Guided by Ledley's late 1950s survey of computer use in biology and medicine (carried out for the NAS-NRC), and by his and Lusted's articles, the NIH undertook the first major effort to introduce computers to biology ...

  7. Medical algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Medical algorithms are part of a broader field which is usually fit under the aims of medical informatics and medical decision-making. Medical decisions occur in several areas of medical activity including medical test selection, diagnosis, therapy and prognosis, and automatic control of medical equipment.

  8. Heuristic-systematic model of information processing - Wikipedia

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    The HSM has also been applied in medical decision-making contexts. A 2004 study by Suzanne K. Steginga , PhD, and Stefano Occhipinti, PhD, Queensland Cancer Fund and the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University investigated the utility of the heuristic-systematic processing model as a framework for the investigation of patient ...

  9. Society for Medical Decision Making - Wikipedia

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    Society for Medical Decision Making; Abbreviation: SMDM: Formation: 1979: Type: Professional Association: Purpose "To improve health outcomes through the advancement of proactive systematic approaches to clinical decision-making and policy formation in health care by providing a scholarly forum that connects and educates researchers, providers, policy makers, and the public."