Scores >37.5 on the overall scale (range 0 100) indicate high decisional conflict, which is characterised by decision delay and/or uncertainty about decision implementation (O'Connor, 1995).
The prime minister, who has repeatedly characterised a decision to leave the EU as a "leap in the dark", has been accused of playing up the risks of Brexit in a strategy dubbed "Project Fear".
Uncertainty and ambiguity characterising decision making in general practice may induce discomfort in the GP.
Sony Kapoor, of the Re-Define thinktank, said: "The sharply deteriorating economic forecasts underscore why despite the lull arising from a quietening of the acute phase of the crisis, EU policymakers must not be allowed to procrastinate and become complacent, a pattern that has characterised EU decision-making from the start of the crisis".
Participants characterised such decision-making as risky, in part because patients' satisfaction is evaluated retroactively based on outcomes.
Participants characterised uninformed decision-making as a significant problem among medical tourists, particularly among those who obtained dental or cosmetic procedures.
Mr Obama carefully characterises the decision as a matter of priority-setting within the DHS (and not as an "executive order") about the use of scarce resources:[I]n the absence of any action from Congress to fix our broken immigration system, what DHS has taken steps to do is focus immigration enforcement resources in the right places.
In this technique, the phenotype of an evolved heuristic is characterised by a decision vector with the dimension of K, where K is the number of decision situations (each decision situation includes a number of jobs to be prioritised).
The Australian Christian Lobby's managing director, Lyle Shelton, characterised the "clear decision" against the ACT law as a win for common sense.
