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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Applying Decision Analysis to Human Factors in Decision Making at Stanford University Medical Center
Author : John Celona
Published in: Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Decision-making is a fundamental life skill, yet people reliably and predictably make decisions which, upon a more careful consideration, they no longer agree with. Developed over the last 50 years, decision analysis drew from statistical decision theory, cognitive psychology, economics, and system engineering to comprise a philosophy, theory, and methodology for making better decisions in complex and uncertain situations. We briefly discuss decision analysis, then show how it was applied to making better decisions in medical malpractice cases at Stanford University Medical Center.