Clinical decision making

I teach clinical decision making mainly to nurses and midwives at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The objective is to link theories about thinking and reasoning to the practice of making decisions in specific clinical domains. However, it became clear that much of the research in this area tended to use out-dated psychological ideas and employed them in ways which obscured the common ground between different clinical disciplines. Hence, in collaboration with Ann Adams from Warwick Medical School, I wrote two papers which attempted to clarify the similarities between theories applied to various clinical domains (see the paper abstracts). The research has developed since then to produce a coding scheme for analysing clinical decision making that has been applied to a joint US/UK research project on General Practitioner decisions. See the publications list for references to papers coming out of this study.

C.D.Buckingham, Computer Science, University of Aston