Strategies for avoiding pitfalls in clinical decision-making

Carl Thompson; Dawn Dowding; Dorothy McCaughan

Strategies for avoiding pitfalls in clinical decision-making

Nurs Times. 2004 May 18;100(20):40-2.

Authors

Carl Thompson¹, Dawn Dowding, Dorothy McCaughan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 15176277

Abstract

This article is the first in a series of four exploring how nurses make decisions. It distinguishes clinical judgement from the process of decision-making and looks at the sorts of decisions nurses make and what can go wrong.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Decision Making*
Humans
Nursing*