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An exploratory study examined variation in the participation of physicians in hospital strategic decision making as a function of (1) strategic decision content or (2) hospital strategy, or both. The findings revealed that who participates is a function of decision content while ...

The goal of this dissertation is to understand the decision making from the link between the experience of decision and cognitive scheme of executives of a company s energy sector. The specific objectives are: determine the common principles as perceived by executives surveyed in...

The aim of multicriteria decision aiding is to give the decision maker a recommendation concerning a set of objects evaluated from multiple points of view called criteria. Since a rational decision maker acts with respect to his/her value system, in order to recommend the most-pr...

A follow up study of 164 couples to evaluate reproductive decision making two to three years after genetic counselling showed that 43% had problems making the reproductive decision. These couples (1) had experienced difficulty in the decision making process, (2) had doubts about ...

Abstract In this, paper we analyze the impact of the decision rule to represent the behavior of individuals in the diffusion curve predicted by models of innovation diffusion at the individual level. We use an agent-based model, in which diffusion takes place in a small-world net...

This work presents an application of adaptive technology to the decision making process applied in the business management and Decision Support Systems. To accomplish this goal, a development environment based on adaptive decision tables is proposed. This way, a user who is not f...

Clinical decision making is driven by information in the form of patient data and clinical knowledge. Currently prevalent systems used to store and retrieve this information have high failure rates, which can be traced to well-established system constraints. The authors use a...

The models usually used by the companies to monitor and to foresee the decision making process, searching for the ideal level of success in decisions, in many cases they are not appropriate. This happens because many of these decisions involve aspects that could not be foreseen i...

Abstract The lexicon plays a fundamental role in reading, but little is known about how it influences reading efficiency. Thus, this study seeks to identify which lexical factors in a lexical decision task are relevant in a semantic decision test. A total of 33 university student...

The executive decision making is the main challenge of managers in modern enterprises. Decisions are extremely critical activities in organizations that live in permanent process of mutation. Decision should be made in a short period of time because of the dynamic of the world. D...

Objective: Few previous studies evaluating the benefits of diagnostic decision support systems have simultaneously measured changes in diagnostic quality and clinical management prompted by use of the system. This report describes a reliable and valid scoring technique to measure...

In this work, we make a study of the Bayes sequential decision procedure applied to capture-recapture with fixed sample sizes, to estimate the size of a finite and closed population process. We present the statistical model, review the Bayesian decision theory, presenting the pur...

RESUMO Objetivo: Analisar a tomada de decisão dos estudantes de uma escola superior de enfermagem e compreender como eles tomam decisões no processo de cuidados. Método: Abordagem qualitativa, de carácter exploratório e descritivo, com método de estudo de caso. Resultados: Os ...

Asbtract Background The complexity of current organizations implies a potential overload for workers. For this reason, it is of interest to study the effects that mental workload has on the performance of complex tasks in professional settings. Objective The objective of this...

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The ZAPROS method belongs to the Verbal Decision Analysis framework, and it aims at solving decision-making problems in a more realistic way from the decision maker's point of view. Quantitative methods can lead to loss of information when attempting to assign accurate measuremen...

This paper describes an application in group decision making, aimed at developing a procedure to help define priorities in preventive maintenance activities. The method applied is called DRV Processes (Decision with Reduction of Variability) and it combines both statistical techn...

The aim of this article is to present, through a real case, a practical way, based on Multicriteria Decision Aiding, to support decision making in Plastic Surgery. The case studied was a Caucasian woman of 36 years of age with mammarian hypertrophia with ptosis and abdominal lipo...

Objective: Develop the methodological foundation for interactive use of Markov process decision models by patients and physicians at the bedside....

Strategic decision-making is a theme used over the years to help men and women, particularly in organizations, to think in a structured way on how to decide, which arguments and how to adopt them. With the entry of women into the labor market, the decision-making theory has expan...

This study describes the organs users of cost information from the Federal Government and its implementation process, identifying the possible difficulties encountered in the implementation of the Information System Costs (SIC) and using the same process system to support decisio...