Description
Why do some clinicians make better decisions than others?
Do all clinicians become better decision-makers over time?
Is decision-making in healthcare an independent and trainable skill?
This book is about the practice of medicine and the decision-making of the people we entrust with our care. While treatments, technologies and professional roles have evolved over the years, the essential act of decision-making has remained constant.
Through personal experience, research and feedback from colleagues across healthcare, the authors examine how metacognition – or thinking about thinking – can provide a toolkit with which to improve the decision-making of all healthcare professionals.
The rise of digital tools and AI-based clinical support systems makes this a critical time to grasp how human decision-makers operate and how to best harness the increasing volume of healthcare data available.
This is a thought-provoking read for professionals and curious minds alike, packed with ideas and practical advice about how to improve decision-making in healthcare and deliver better outcomes for patients.
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Table of Contents
Prologue Part 1 – Context, Objectives, Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Healthcare now, Summary, Part 2 – The Wrong Kind of Training, Objectives, Chapter 3 Old foundations, Chapter 4 Assessment for assessment's sake, Chapter 5 See one, do one, teach one, Summary, Part 3 – How Decisions are Currently Made, Objectives, Chapter 6 Anatomy of a decision, Chapter 7 Common biases, Chapter 8 Process versus outcome, Chapter 9 A prescription for better decisions, Chapter 10 The Nightingale experience, Summary, Part Four – How Decisions will be Made in the Future, Objectives, Chapter 11 How decisions will be made in the future, Chapter 12 Two black boxes, Chapter 13 Care in the future, Summary, Epilogue
