"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1996 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1997 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2000 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2003 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2004 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2006 | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| 2007 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2008 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| 2009 | 8 | 15 | 23 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 2011 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 2013 | 15 | 12 | 27 |
| 2014 | 18 | 7 | 25 |
| 2015 | 30 | 13 | 43 |
| 2016 | 15 | 11 | 26 |
| 2017 | 12 | 14 | 26 |
| 2018 | 12 | 17 | 29 |
| 2019 | 9 | 18 | 27 |
| 2020 | 10 | 12 | 22 |
| 2021 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2023 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2024 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Decision Making" by people in Profiles.
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Factors Influencing Guardians' Health-Seeking Decisions for Children With Burkitt Lymphoma in Northern and Central Malawi. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Feb; 72(2):e31442.
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Perspectives of international experts and the Danish citizens on the 'relevant knowledge' that citizens need for making informed choices about participation in cancer screening: Qualitative study. Patient Educ Couns. 2025 Jan; 130:108479.
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Clustering computer mouse tracking data with informed hierarchical shrinkage partition priors. Biometrics. 2024 Oct 03; 80(4).
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Talking About Suffering in the Intensive Care Unit. AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2025 Jan-Mar; 16(1):52-59.
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HPV Vaccination Decision Among Catch-up Population Through a Digital Intervention: Empowering Young Adults to Their Own Health Decision-Making. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2024 Dec; 27(12):929-938.
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Common mistakes and evidence-based approaches in goals-of-care conversations for seriously ill older adults in cardiac care unit. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care. 2024 Aug 28; 13(8):629-633.
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Strategic stabilization of arousal boosts sustained attention. Curr Biol. 2024 Sep 23; 34(18):4114-4128.e6.
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Irrational choices via a curvilinear representational geometry for value. Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 30; 15(1):6424.
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Gaze-centered gating, reactivation, and reevaluation of economic value in orbitofrontal cortex. Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 22; 15(1):6163.
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Improving the palliative-procedure decision-making process for patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis: A secondary analysis. Gynecol Oncol. 2024 Sep; 188:125-130.