Roberts B
Am J Psychiatry. 1978 Nov;135(11):1384-7. doi: 10.1176/ajp.135.11.1384.
The author reviews the efforts of medicine and psychiatry to understand their decision-making processes and notes the lack of psychiatric literature in this area. The decision table, a sophisticated form of algorithm, is introduced as a structure to help explain the decision-making process. This tool is applied to the evaluation and biological treatment of depression. Decision tables can be used as an educational tool, a method to facilitate the delivery of mental health care, a method to monitor the quality of treatment, and as a research tool.
作者回顾了医学和精神病学为理解其决策过程所做的努力，并指出该领域缺乏精神病学文献。决策表作为一种复杂的算法形式，被引入作为一种有助于解释决策过程的结构。该工具被应用于抑郁症的评估和生物治疗。决策表可用作一种教育工具、一种促进心理健康护理提供的方法、一种监测治疗质量的方法以及一种研究工具。
