The Ethical Implications of Shared Medical Decision Making without Providing Adequate Computational Support to the Care Provider and to the Patient

Understand

There is a clear need to involve patients in medical decisions.

• However, cognitive psychological research has highlighted the cognitive limitations of humans with respect to 1.
• Probabilistic assessment of the patient state and of potential outcomes of various decisions, 2.
• Elicitation of the patient utility function, and 3.