title: [Theoretical surgery and making a clinical decision].
abstract: Theoretical surgery--if available in departments of surgery--participates in clinical decisions as a supportive system with concepts, structures, and methods of formal (statistical) and heuristic (problem-solving, individual) decision making. Decision making for groups of patients and for individual subjects is not identical, but also not mutually exclusive. Decision support is realized in terms of a defined instrument: the permanent, integrated working team of surgeons, theoretical surgeons, technical staff, and medical students. Hence the process and progress of decision support is determined by the effectiveness of these working groups.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Chirurgie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rothmund
mesh_terms: D003933:Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011379:Prognosis; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012106:Research; D012307:Risk Factors; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Theoretische Chirurgie und klinische Entscheidungsfindung.