Chapter 31: Decision Support for Consumers

This day was so boring they made me sick instead I am sleeping right now but grrr. Anyway I have to update this. What I have learned about the decision support for the consumer well definitely decision support for the consumer includes the;

·         Health-Related Decision Making this is challenging for patients for several key reason. First, decision-making itself is a complex, perceptual, cognitive, and social process.

·         Next, Second Health-Related Decision Making it is complicated because the substance of the problems and choices is itself complex and exceeds the knowledge and education of most layperson.

·         Another is the Finally Health-Related Decision Making it is complex because it generally involves more than a single person. Two key groups must be considered: the family members of the person facing a health crisis or in need of health information and the healthcare delivery team.

·         Health Care Decision Making it is challenging because it involves uncertainty, taxes human information processing capabilities, deals with subject matter that is unfamiliar to the involved person, and there are multiple constituencies that must be served.

·         Shared Decision-Making and Informed Choice Shared decision making is also known as relationship or collaboration decision making which empowers patients to choose among the options available to them in consultation with their clinician(s) using their personal values to frame the choice among alternatives.

There are Two Main Branches of Decision Theory this includes;

—  Decision Analysis and,

—  Normative Decision Theory

In decision analysis it helps in choosing one course of action from several when the most desired strategy depends, in part, on the knowledge of the costs, benefits, and probabilities of the resolution of the outcomes of that strategy.

That’s all folks… LJ