Heuristics in managing complex clinical decision tasks in experts decision making

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Publication Type pre-print
School or College School of Medicine
Department Biomedical Informatics
Creator Del Fiol, Guilherme
Other Author Islam, Roosan; Weir, Charlene
Title Heuristics in managing complex clinical decision tasks in experts decision making
Date 2014-01-01
Description Background: Clinical decision support is a tool to help experts make optimal and efficient decisions. However, little is known about the high level of abstractions in the thinking process for the experts. Objective: The objective of the study is to understand how clinicians manage complexity while dealing with complex clinical decision tasks. Method: After approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB), three clinical experts were interviewed the transcripts from these interviews were analyzed. Results: We found five broad categories of strategies by experts for managing complex clinical decision tasks: decision conflict, mental projection, decision trad e-offs, managing uncertainty and generating rule of thumb. Conclusion: Complexity is created by decision conflicts, mental projection, limited options and treatment uncertainty. Experts cope with complexity in a variety of ways, including using efficient and fast decision strategies to simplify complex decision tasks, mentally simulating outcomes and focusing on only the most relevant information. Application: Understanding comp lex decision making processes can help design allocation based on the complexity of task for clinical decision support design.
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Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
First Page 186
Last Page 193
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Islam, R., Weir, C., & Del Fiol, G. (2014). Heuristics in managing complex clinical decision tasks in experts decision making. Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, 186-93.
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