Decision Making

The American College of Cardiology has published its expert decision pathway for the etiology, diagnosis and management of myocarditis and long COVID after COVID-19 infection.

Clinicians reported striving to minimize treatment burden and working with children with chronic kidney disease and their parents to support shared decision-making, according to data published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder among youths may affect decision-making because of uncertainty in the environment, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

An HPV vaccination intervention that was implemented in schools modestly improved psychosocial vaccine-related outcomes like decision-making in adolescents, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The Sharing and Talking About My Preferences intervention increased patient participation in advance care planning in ambulatory care settings, according to findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Most patients with bipolar disorder endorsed involuntary treatment via self-binding directives on the basis of impaired decision-making abilities, according to study results published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Global health, physical function, pain intensity, pain interference and depression are patient-reported outcome measures that should be integrated into clinical decision-making, according to a foot and ankle surgeon.

The Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics announced that its web-based decision support system for medication safety will be free to medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers have gained new insight into the cognitive and computational process underlying obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Specifically, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder may distrust their past experience, resulting in increased indecisiveness, uncertainty and exploratory behaviors, according to study findings published in PLoS Computational Biology.

PHOENIX — An investigation into the preoperative and postoperative clinical utility of synovial alpha-defensin tests showed the test did not change clinical decision-making in the setting of periprosthetic joint infection, a study presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting showed.