Using qualitative data analysis techniques, decision-making processes involving prenatal record content specifically related to maternal smoking and alcohol use will be compared both within and across each case, to identify key contextual factors influencing the uptake and application of research evidence by prenatal record review committees.
Other approaches adopted monitoring and historical data combining with ranking techniques for decision making [15].
After all, using more sophisticated techniques in decision making for urban and regional areas, such as scenario planning, is gaining ground, as seen in the research of Gunnarsson-Östling and Höjer (2011).
We will search the following electronic bibliographic database: PubMed (see box 2), The Cochrane Library, CINAHL, EMBASE and PsycINFO using, where appropriate, medical subject heading (MeSH) terms: "abortion, induced", "choice behavior", "patient education", "decision support techniques" and "decision making" and/or key words with Boolean operators (see online supplementary appendix 1).
This chapter proposes a general technique for decision making.
It combines a knowledge acquisition technique, a multi-attribute decision making technique, a validation technique and a machine learning algorithm.
Future studies should focus on the integration of these techniques into clinical decision making.
The linguistic term set is an applicable and flexible technique in qualitative decision making (QDM).
Generating Pareto surfaces is a well accepted technique in multiattribute decision making.
In an attempt to assess the validity of the measures, we could follow the axioms of von Neumann and Morgenstern, where the SG method has a basis in expected utility theory and is the standard technique for measuring decision making under uncertainty, implying that it gives a valid health-state utility by definition [ 34].
