Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Clinical Decision-Making

Clinical decision-making is the structured cognitive process by which clinicians integrate evidence-based knowledge, patient data, professional experience, and patient preferences to diagnose conditions and select appropriate management. It draws on diagnostic reasoning, probabilistic inference, risk-benefit weighin…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 23× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-5526 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Clinical decision-making is the structured cognitive process by which clinicians integrate evidence-based knowledge, patient data, professional experience, and patient preferences to diagnose conditions and select appropriate management. It draws on diagnostic reasoning, probabilistic inference, risk-benefit weighing, and increasingly on formal decision-support tools that bring data, guidelines, and algorithms to the point of care. Within medical informatics, the field examines how structured documentation, standardized terminologies, and computational methods improve the reliability and safety of these judgements. Research in this area addresses the standardization and codification of adverse drug events through improved definitions, documentation, and mapping, as well as more refined medication definitions to support pharmacovigilance and safer prescribing. Further strands consider the use of metabolomic and molecular tools in assessing exposure and stratifying patients, the integration of biomarkers such as microRNA expression and immunohistochemical markers into prognosis, and the application of machine-learning and rule-induction methods to clinical and biological data. The discipline connects diagnostic accuracy, patient safety, health informatics, and evidence synthesis, with implications for reducing error and tailoring treatment. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on clinical decision-making and its informatics foundations, including adverse drug event standardization, biomarker-guided prognosis, and computational approaches to clinical and diagnostic data.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

The Use of Metabolomic Tool in Assessing Environmental Exposure

Polyana Rocha Mendes MicheleCorresponding author
Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Exact topic International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine doi:10.14302/issn.2690-0904.ijoe-21-3966
2023

Oral Ulceration

McGuckin BronaghCorresponding author
Exact topic International Journal of General Practice doi:10.14302/issn.2692-5257.ijgp-22-4071
2021

Six Fractal Codes of Biological Life Unifying ATOMS, WAVES and INFORMATION: Perspectives in Exobiology, Cancers Basic Research and Artificial Intelligence Biomimetism Decisions Making

Perez Jean-claudeCorresponding author
Phd Maths Computer Science Bordeaux University, RETIRED Interdisciplinary Researcher (IBM Emeritus, IBM European Research Center On Artificial Intelligence Montpellier) Bordeaux Metropole, France.
Medical Informatics and Decision Making Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-5526.jmid-21-3900
2020

Study of The ID3 and C4.5 Learning Algorithms

Y.FakirCorresponding author
Laboratory of Information Processing and Decision Support, Faculty of Sciences and Technics, Sultane Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco
Medical Informatics and Decision Making Cited by 7 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-5526.jmid-20-3302

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 23 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Medical Informatics and Decision Making (ISSN 2641-5526).

Journal editorial board
Jennifer Fink · united states Lifeng Peng · New Zealand Prasad Konkalmatt · United States

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