The topics covered include psychosocial and neurobehavioural aspects, neurocognitive testing tools, decision making, autonomy and delayed communications, well being, mental health, situational awareness, and methodology.
The expert group session imbedded a series of knowledge elicitation techniques; creativity tools, decision tools, assessment instruments, consensus methods like Delphi techniques, expert group tools based on nominal group techniques, etc.
They also expect tools (decision trees) to help in therapeutic decision-making by defining treatments according to patient profiles: "We should have a decision checklist based on assessment of risks that would help us to identify how to proceed in 3 or 4 steps with knee osteoarthritis patients.
(4) Self-management tools, decision aids, links to community resources, and logistical support are provided.
There were 312 original research articles, 123 reviews, 38 papers describing clinical guidelines, policies and recommendations, and 32 describing tools, decision support and educational materials.
MATE is equipped with functionalities of prognostication tools, decision panel where system recommendations and eligible clinical trials are highlighted in colors, and the evidential justification for each recommended option.
