Decision Analysis in Psychiatry
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 166 (2) , 184-190
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.166.2.184
Abstract
Background: Decision analysis is an explicit, quantitative approach to examining difficult decisions about course of action. Its applicability to psychiatry is considered.Method: An example of how decision analysis could be used in psychiatry is given, criticism of the technique is discussed, and previous attempts to apply it to mental illness problems (from a Medline search from 1966 onwards) are reviewed.Conclusion: The future for decision analysis in psychiatry lies in teaching, audit and research, rather than clinical work.Keywords
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