A disadvantage of this sequential classification approach is that an incorrect decision made early has no chance of being corrected [19].
Incorrect disease severity classification may lead to faulty decision making in choosing the most appropriate treatment for the individual patient.
The NHS is expecting to pay more than £180m in restitution for all the incorrect decisions made by SHAs.
Administrative law is often the first port of call for individuals who feel that they have been negatively affected by incorrect decisions made by public officials.
A Bayesian estimate of the accuracy of individual i, based on uninformative prior knowledge [32], is:
"Thousands suffered because time and again incorrect decisions have been made on the back of Atos assessments," he said.
As this threshold value is a subjective matter and varies between physicians, patients and family members, one suggested approach [ 68] involves the measurement of the amount of regret the decision maker would have should an incorrect decision be made.
"In a difficult operating environment, complex corporate structures begin to encourage incorrect decision-making," said Louis Gargour, a managing director with RAB Capital Management in London, who recently sold short bonds of Shell subsidiaries, essentially making a bet the bonds would lose value.
During the second and third stages of this process, the naïve interpretation may be incorrect (or at least incomplete) and may lead to erroneous decision making.
Furthermore, although submission to peers can lead to occasional cascades of incorrect decisions, these can be explained as a byproduct of what is usually accurate consensus decision making.
