Miscarriage early in pregnancy is very common—roughly one-fifth of detected pregnancies are thought to end in miscarriage, mostly in the first trimester. After a single miscarriage, patients are ...

To better understand decision-making, researchers can create computational models—groups of equations that aim to predict what decisions people would make when faced with a set of choices. For example ...

Researchers found that an artificial intelligence (AI) model solved medical quiz questions -- designed to test health professionals' ability to diagnose patients based on clinical images and a brief ...

Overall, the model described in the new Nature study matched the decision-making processes of humans, non-human primates, and laboratory rats. Notably, the model predicted decisions that were ...

Most people have had this experience: sitting in a doctor’s office, hearing a recommendation, and agreeing to move forward—often within minutes. It may seem like a simple, fact-based decision. But ...

Many of the challenges we address here were evident to the pioneers of medical decision analysis of the 1950s 7 and to scholars in subsequent decades 8-11 who conducted careful and creative studies of ...

"Why haven't they scheduled your dad for his feeding tube placement? They just want another family conference." I sighed and told my mother we may have to fight. The physicians caring for my father ...