 Decision Making
"Decision Making" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.
| Descriptor ID |
D003657
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.785.373
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| Concept/Terms |
Decision Making, Shared- Decision Making, Shared
- Decision Makings, Shared
- Making, Shared Decision
- Makings, Shared Decision
- Shared Decision Making
- Shared Decision Makings
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Decision Making" by people in this website by year, and whether "Decision Making" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1998 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2001 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2002 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2003 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2004 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2005 | 5 | 9 | 14 | | 2006 | 8 | 9 | 17 | | 2007 | 8 | 4 | 12 | | 2008 | 4 | 10 | 14 | | 2009 | 11 | 14 | 25 | | 2010 | 5 | 12 | 17 | | 2011 | 14 | 12 | 26 | | 2012 | 24 | 14 | 38 | | 2013 | 24 | 22 | 46 | | 2014 | 26 | 16 | 42 | | 2015 | 27 | 11 | 38 | | 2016 | 27 | 19 | 46 | | 2017 | 28 | 15 | 43 | | 2018 | 34 | 24 | 58 | | 2019 | 25 | 26 | 51 | | 2020 | 13 | 20 | 33 | | 2021 | 6 | 14 | 20 | | 2022 | 6 | 17 | 23 | | 2023 | 9 | 16 | 25 | | 2024 | 14 | 12 | 26 | | 2025 | 16 | 9 | 25 | | 2026 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Decision Making" by people in Profiles.
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Wonderly KK, Zimmerman RS. Psychological Distress Among Black Surrogates of Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study. Nurs Crit Care. 2026 Nov; 31(6).
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Zemplenyi A, DiStefano MJ, Zheng H, Campbell JD, McQueen RB. Expanding the definition of unmet medical need: Findings from a multistakeholder workshop. J Manag Care Spec Pharm. 2026 Oct; 32(10-c Suppl):S11-S20.
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Nicholas LH, Halpern SD, Langa KM, Macis M. Surrogate Decision-Making for Older Adults With and Without Dementia. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Oct 01; 9(10):e2637691.
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Jawish R, DiBlasi E, Allshouse AA, Martin-Willett R, Kinkead B, Moench M, Carlson PJ, Smid MC, Gordon AJ, Silver RM, Rapaport MH. Maternal Mental Health After Stillbirth: Associations With Autopsy Decisions, Cause of Death Knowledge, and Psychosocial Risk Factors. Matern Child Health J. 2026 Sep; 30(9):1191-1204.
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Jarne C, Yoon R, Eissa T, Kilpatrick ZP, Josic K. Task-Parametrized dynamics: Representation of time and decisions in recurrent neural networks. J Comput Neurosci. 2026 Dec; 54(4):667-688.
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Poole E, Xiao B, Luca S, Assamad D, Abbott LS, Armstrong L, Boycott KM, Carroll JC, Chad L, De Bie I, Denburg A, Deyell RJ, Elliott AM, Goudie C, Laberge AM, Mucha BE, Peltekova IT, Quinlan B, Sawyer SL, Smith M, Villani A, Ungar WJ, Hayeems RZ. The Patient-reported Genetic testing Utility InDEx (P-GUIDE): A novel measure of personal utility. Genet Med. 2026 Oct; 28(10):102670.
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Popenhagen MP, Bruckner AL, Feinstein JA, Hill AB, Heinrichs S, Stack A, Doernbrack C, Schober-Flores C, Cacioppo CL, Godber DM, Gorell ES. Severe Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa: Honoring Parental Values in Pediatric Palliative Decision-Making. Pediatr Dermatol. 2026 Aug; 43 Suppl 2:93-99.
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Geppert CMA, Sussman JC, Hester HN, Tarzian AJ. Embedding Ethics Into Decision-Making Capacity Assessment: An Electronic Health Record-Enabled Systemwide Approach. Mayo Clin Proc. 2026 Oct; 101(10):1780-1787.
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Chary AN, Tamma S, Bhananker AR, Ramirez J, Bozkurt B, Schoenfeld EM, Haimovich AD, Lam K, Naik AD. A qualitative study of goals of hospital care and health outcome goals among patients admitted for heart failure. Patient Educ Couns. 2026 Oct; 151:109769.
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Hansen A, Luca S, Moran O, Babul-Hirji R, Coe TB, Wilk K, Assamad D, Fooks K, Venkataramanan V, Shickh S, Yan J, Wu V, Badalato L, Balci TB, Ladouceur VB, Chad L, Chisholm C, Gillespie MK, Huang L, Jarinova O, Lau L, Lee W, Mackley MP, Marshall CR, Mendoza-Londono R, Morel CF, Richer J, Sawyer S, Stavropoulos DJ, Szuto A, Tarnopolsky M, Villani A, Zahavich L, Somerville MJ, Boycott KM, Ungar WJ, Hayeems RZ. Understanding the decision of parents to opt-out of medically actionable secondary findings offered through genome sequencing. J Genet Couns. 2026 Jun; 35(3):e70218.
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