While professionals have to make difficult choices in their everyday practice, the current outbreak and these unprecedented times will increase the pressures to make tough decisions. Looking at other areas, where individuals operate in environments of high stakes and uncertainty, we hope to outline some key lessons that can be transferred to the current healthcare setting.
Decision-making - Professor Laurence Alison
Part one: Decision inertia
An introduction to the realities of decision inertia and people's failure to act.
Part two: How do experts avoid inertia?
Experts' ability to avoid decision inertia and some of the tools they utilise.
Part three: Accelerating expertise
How to accelerate expertise and assist your decision-making processes.
Decision-making - Dr Neil Shortland
Part one: Understand your environment
Factors in the environment that will make it harder for you to make decisions.
Part two: Making tough choices
How people make difficult choices in extremely difficult situations.
Part three: Living with your decisions
The psychological outcomes of the choices that you make and the importance of reflecting on them.
Further information
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