Title :
Medical decision making and systems thinking
Author_Institution :
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
Abstract :
Components of medical decision-making are discussed on the basis of an actual patient with heart disease. A systems thinking framework developed by P. Senge (The Fifth Discipline, Currency and Doubleday Publishing, New York, 1990) is presented. The author tries to bring the clinical world and systems thinking to suggest areas for collaboration between physicians and systems scientists
Keywords :
cardiology; decision theory; medicine; heart disease; medical decision-making; systems thinking; Blood; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Collaboration; Coronary arteriosclerosis; Decision making; Heart valves; Hospitals; Muscles; Pacemakers;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1991. 'Decision Aiding for Complex Systems, Conference Proceedings., 1991 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Charlottesville, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0233-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1991.169920
