Clinical Decision Making for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (original) (raw)

2019

Abstract

Objective: Interprofessional collaborative practice skills and the ability to make effective clinical decisions are among the most important skills required for practising health professionals, and are an important focus of health discipline students' training. Individual differences can affect decision making style (e.g., Appelt, Milch, Handgraaf & Weber, 2011; Hewes, 2009; Phillips, Fletcher, Marks, & Hine, 2016; Shaban, 2005), and cognitive processes that use decision making heuristics are prone to biases by both expert and novice clinicians (Bradley, 2005). Therefore, errors and biases could affect the successful interprofessional functioning of healthcare teams. Understanding individual health practitioners' and students' natural cognitive processing style, decision making style, and factors that influence these, could be key to researching methods of enhancing clinical decision making (CDM). Considerable evidence supports the positive benefits of healthcare practit...

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