 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 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2001 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2002 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2003 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2004 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2005 | 5 | 9 | 14 | | 2006 | 10 | 10 | 20 | | 2007 | 8 | 4 | 12 | | 2008 | 4 | 8 | 12 | | 2009 | 11 | 13 | 24 | | 2010 | 6 | 13 | 19 | | 2011 | 16 | 12 | 28 | | 2012 | 24 | 13 | 37 | | 2013 | 23 | 22 | 45 | | 2014 | 26 | 17 | 43 | | 2015 | 25 | 12 | 37 | | 2016 | 28 | 18 | 46 | | 2017 | 26 | 16 | 42 | | 2018 | 32 | 23 | 55 | | 2019 | 23 | 26 | 49 | | 2020 | 12 | 23 | 35 | | 2021 | 6 | 13 | 19 | | 2022 | 6 | 15 | 21 | | 2023 | 9 | 16 | 25 | | 2024 | 14 | 12 | 26 | | 2025 | 13 | 8 | 21 | | 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Decision Making" by people in Profiles.
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Loehr J, Moser CA, Asturias EJ, Shaw AC, Goddard K, Chen LH, Chu HY, Kamboj M, Hawkinson D, Maldonado YA, Talbot HK, Brewer NT. Science for vaccine policy: Lack of transparency, misinformation, and poor decision processes at the December 2025 ACIP meeting. Vaccine. 2026 Mar 19; 76:128338.
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Holtrop JS, Dorsey-Holliman B, Hamilton AB. Navigating qualitative methods choices in dissemination and implementation research. Implement Sci. 2025 Dec 17; 21(1):11.
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Gelino BW, Felton JW, Hung IT, Strickland JC, Kahn GD, Thomas NS, Gowin JL, Sloan ME, Palmer AA, Sanchez-Roige S, Sanches MR, Yip SW, Maher BS, Rabinowitz JA. Delay discounting violations vary by adolescent sociodemographics: Excluding nonsystematic data may bias conclusions. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2026 Feb; 34(1):31-43.
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Thaxton L, Arey W, Pérez GA, Paramasivam P, Lerma K, White K. Texas' Abortion Ban Conflicts With Person-Centered Health Care: Experiences of Texans With Medically Complex Pregnancies. Womens Health Issues. 2026 Mar-Apr; 36(2):106-111.
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Goldberg EM, Macis M, Bounds M, Picazo JG, Nicholas LH. Free-Text Responses in a Nationally Representative Experimental Survey about End-of-Life Care Choices: ChatGPT-4o-Assisted Qualitative Analytical Study. JMIR Aging. 2025 Oct 29; 8:e76335.
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Hills-Dunlap K, Knoepke CE, Matlock DD, Burnham EL, Moss M, Jolley SE, Tietbohl CK. Decisional needs of intensive care unit survivors with alcohol use disorder considering alcohol treatment: A qualitative study. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Dec; 179:209798.
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Forestell CA, Moding KJ, Barrett KJ, Lawless MC, Johnson SL. Factors associated with caregivers' decisions about when to introduce meat to their infants and toddlers. Appetite. 2026 Feb 01; 217:108306.
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Trego LL, Phillips AK, Washington TN, Lynn AB, Wilson C. Use of A Mobile Application for Contraceptive Decision Making: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial. Mil Med. 2025 Sep 01; 190(Supplement_2):341-347.
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Rauzi MR, Balakrishnan S, Flynn SM, Keysor JJ, Hoenig HM. Guiding Technology Adoption in Rehabilitation: A Framework From the Rehabilitation Technology Implementation for Promising Solutions (Rehab TIPS) Workgroup. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2026 Jan; 107(1):123-133.
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Webermann AR, Bonnes SM, Rupcic S, Holliday R, Monteith LL, Rosen MI, Portnoy GA, Murdoch M. "A Lot of Gray": Ambiguity, Beliefs, and Discretion in Veterans Benefits Administration Military Sexual Trauma-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Disability Claims. J Clin Psychol. 2026 Jan; 82(1):55-64.
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