Medical Decision Making focuses on systematic approaches to decisions about the clinical care of patients. These approaches include decision analysis, applications of quantitative methods in clinical settings and medical research, studies of human cognition and the psychology of clinical reasoning, computer aids to decision making, artificial intelligence, evaluation of medical practices, and cost- effectiveness and cost-benefit assessments.

醫療決策的重點是系統的方法來決定的臨床護理病人。這些方法包括決策分析、定量方法在臨床環境和醫學研究中的應用、人類認知和臨床推理心理學的研究、計算機輔助決策、人工智能、醫療實踐評估以及成本效益和成本效益評估。