Here, planning and decision making are understood as approximate Bayesian (active) inference (Toussaint and Storkey 2006; Botvinick and Toussaint 2012), where agents minimize their surprise about future states.
The process of decision making was understood as on-going and not necessarily a 'one off' event limited to a one-off consultation: patient decision aids could have some utility as between-consultation tools.
Once the standard for decision-making is understood, the strength of risk assessment as originally detailed by the Red Book paradigm [ 11] can be more fully realized.
"… she [my physical therapist] is really good … she cares about me and makes me feel that I'm not only one in a crowd, she asks me how I feel today … and if we shall insert the needles …" Involvement in the therapeutic process and the decision-making was understood to be a part of the individual care.
The power of analytics in decision making is well understood, but few companies have what it takes to successfully implement a complex analytics program.
The relationship between the decision making threshold and the movement from deliberation to decision making is currently poorly understood, and should be a focus for further research.
Strategies and processes to increase the use of research in decision making are poorly understood and require creativity, intellectual rigor, skills and organizational savvy and endurance [ 7].
CTA within the framework of Naturalistic Decision Making is a useful tool to understand the critical care process of decision-making and communication.
We need to understand that our decision making is a very complex process, encompassing not only our knowledge and desire, but also much input from other sources.
Social scientists increasingly understand that much of our decision making is irrational and emotional.
