"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1997 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2003 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2004 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2006 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 4 | 12 | 16 |
| 2009 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2010 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2011 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2012 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| 2013 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| 2014 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| 2015 | 7 | 15 | 22 |
| 2016 | 13 | 7 | 20 |
| 2017 | 15 | 7 | 22 |
| 2018 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| 2020 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2023 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2024 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Decision Making" by people in Profiles.
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Porteny T, Lynch M, Covaleski A, Tjia J, Gazarian P, Reich AJ, Perez S, Kennefick K, Weissman JS, Ladin K. Medical decision-making experiences of persons with dementia and their carepartners: a qualitative study. BMC Palliat Care. 2025 Apr 09; 24(1):99.
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Strokes N, Lloyd C, Girardin AL, Santana CS, Mangus CW, Mitchell KE, Hughes AR, Nelson BB, Gunn B, Schoenfeld EM. Can shared decision-making interventions increase trust/trustworthiness in the physician-patient encounter? A scoping review. Patient Educ Couns. 2025 Jun; 135:108705.
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D'Addario AE, Fukunaga MI, King AM, Singh S, Mazor KM, Fisher KA. Lung cancer screening: What do physicians say to reluctant patients and what do patients want them to say? Patient Educ Couns. 2025 May; 134:108698.
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Riss V, Hartman-Munick SM, Shubkin CD, Lahey T. A Bitter Pill: The Ethics of Involuntary Treatment of Adolescents With Severe Eating Disorders. Hosp Pediatr. 2025 Feb 01; 15(2):e66-e72.
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Jung W, Cho IY, Jeon KH, Yeo Y, Cho J, Jung KW, Choi KS, Shin DW, Lee J. Addressing knowledge and attitude barriers to lung cancer screening: Development and evaluation of web-based decision aid. Lung Cancer. 2024 Dec; 198:108031.
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Patel D, Sejnowski T, Siegelmann H. Optimizing Attention and Cognitive Control Costs Using Temporally Layered Architectures. Neural Comput. 2024 11 19; 36(12):2734-2763.
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Punches BE, Brown JL, Lyons MS, Gillespie GL, Boyer EW, Anderson AR, Carreiro S, Bischof JJ, Kauffman E, Young H, Spatholt D, Tan A, Donneyong M, Ni A, Bakas T. Development and Validation of the Decisions to use Opioids Measure. Pain Manag Nurs. 2025 Apr; 26(2):149-155.
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Andraka-Christou B, Viglione J, Ahmed F, Del Pozo B, Atkins DN, Clark MH, Totaram R, Pivovarova E. Factors affecting problem-solving court team decisions about medications for opioid use disorder. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Jan; 168:209525.
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Lawson SG, Narkewicz EL, Vincent GM. Disparate impact of risk assessment instruments: A systematic review. Law Hum Behav. 2024 Oct-Dec; 48(5-6):427-440.
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Blakey AO, Amaro CM, Eilenberg JS, Brochier A, Kavanagh PL, Garg A, Drainoni ML, Long K. Characterizing medical decision-making in sickle cell disease during childhood: Qualitative perspectives of caregivers. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Dec; 71(12):e31307.