TY - JOUR AU - Djulbegovic, Benjamin AU - Elqayam, Shira AU - Reljic, Tea AU - Hozo, Iztok AU - Miladinovic, Branko AU - Tsalatsanis, Athanasios AU - Kumar, Ambuj AU - Beckstead, Jason AU - Taylor, Stephanie AU - Cannon-Bowers, Janice PY - 2014 DA - 2014/06/05 TI - How do physicians decide to treat: an empirical evaluation of the threshold model JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 47 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - According to the threshold model, when faced with a decision under diagnostic uncertainty, physicians should administer treatment if the probability of disease is above a specified threshold and withhold treatment otherwise. The objectives of the present study are to a) evaluate if physicians act according to a threshold model, b) examine which of the existing threshold models [expected utility theory model (EUT), regret-based threshold model, or dual-processing theory] explains the physicians’ decision-making best. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-14-47 DO - 10.1186/1472-6947-14-47 ID - Djulbegovic2014 ER -