Viklund et al. showed that five categories are important for decision making competence: cognitive maturity, personal qualities, experience, social network and parental involvement.
While in other micro systems such as maternity or intensive care the nurses and doctors were more preoccupied with rapid decision making, competence, and complying with professional procedures as a basis for providing high quality care.
Nevertheless, the informants included in this study were selected following the pre-established criteria so both elected and non-elected informants were highly positioned in their municipal government´s structure and had decision-making competences.
More precisely, we a) evaluated the theoretical, practical medication and decision-making competences of the students, b) evaluated the overall medication competence of the students, and c) identified factors associated with medication competence at the beginning and at the end of their education.
Individual Differences in Need for Cognition and Decision-Making Competence among Leaders.
This trend can be subdivided into the issues of administrative decision-making competence and substantive regulatory control.
Leaders who scored higher on need for cognition performed better on two of four components of a decision-making competence measure: framing and honoring sunk costs.
As part of a large-scale assessment of high-level leaders, participants completed a battery of decision-making competence and personality scales.
This leads to a lengthy discussion of what the authors call "decision-making competence" and its standards, as well as the specific 'decision-making capacities' that are said to underlie what they call "decision competence".
Needless to say, the family's response left room for a lot of uncomfortable questions about the agency and decision-making competence of children.
Due to their low age, we might question the patients' decision-making competence.
