Attributes That Influence Human Decision-Making in Complex Health Services: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Humans currently dominate decision-making in both clinical health services and complex health services such as health policy and health regulation. Many assumptions inherent in health service models today are underpinned by Ramsey's Expected Utility Theory, a prominent theory in the field of economics that is rooted in rationality. Rational, evidence-based metrics currently dominate the culture of decision-making in health policy and regulation. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, rational metrics alone may not suffice in making better policy and regulatory decisions. There are ethical and moral considerations and other complex factors that cannot be reduced to evidence-based rationality alone. Therefore, this scoping review was undertaken to identify and map th

SUBMITTER: Doreswamy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10765291 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature