Determinants of Clinical Decision Making Under Uncertainty

In healthcare, diagnosis and treatment planning are often led by a single practitioner, which creates an over-reliance on individual judgements and the process is vulnerable to individual biases and heuristics that may be incorrect. In this scoping review, the authors have attempted to dissect the underlying process of decision-making in clinical dentistry and the factors that influence an individual clinician when diagnosing and treatment planning a case.

This scoping review is part of a larger project in which STEMM Research has been contributing in elucidating the potential role and application of collective intelligence and group consensus on individual dentists’ diagnosis and treatment plan.