title: Assessing judgment.
abstract: There is currently no satisfactory way to assess judgment and yet the clinician is frequently confronted with this responsibility. The author reviews the judgment and decision-making literature, proposes a model for testing judgment, applies this model to patients in a medical setting, and makes the model operational for empirical study. He emphasizes that to assess judgment one needs to evaluate the process of how the individual deals with uncertainty and then goes on to express a preference. The author develops his model by assessing how the individual appraises the challenge, surveys the alternatives, weighs the alternatives, deliberates about selection, and finally makes a commitment to a preference.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Boston City Hospital, Massachusetts 02118.
authors: K H
authors: KH
authors: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010358:Patient Participation; D011570:Psychiatry