This cognition is similar to that involved in time-pressured human spatial decision making such as steering a car or playing a computer game like Tetris [29].
The results challenged the notion that portfolio committee meetings are the place and time to make collective decisions on the portfolio, rather, portfolio steering committees might unintentionally become or intentionally be used for other purposes than decision making.
Steering committee members were defined as partners who were involved in the administration and strategic decision making processes of the ICP as identified in the original grant application, and verified by the project coordinator.
An active steering committee member was defined as any partner who was involved in the administration and strategic decision making processes in order to realise the collaborative objective of the partnership.
Twice to thrice yearly meetings by the steering group (all authors) and the executive committee (the study's initiators (Thomsen, Dahl, and Ivarsson) handled decision making.
The steering committee overseeing this study is comprised of the investigative team, RFA patient representatives, our non-governmental organization decision making partners, clinician stakeholder representatives, and a web designer.
The following list of potential mechanisms is not prescriptive since the final selection of interventions will depend on the results of the baseline study and the decision made by each local steering committee.
