Semiotics and Decision Making Using AHP in Medicine
<p id="p1">This chapter discusses the intricate relation of medical semiotics and medical decision making. From the very beginning to arrive in a medical context, some signs have to be perceived by the person him/herself, by others, or by using some instruments. If these show a deviation from the co...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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IntechOpen
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/1129985 |
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| Sumario: | <p id="p1">This chapter discusses the intricate relation of medical semiotics and medical decision making. From the very beginning to arrive in a medical context, some signs have to be perceived by the person him/herself, by others, or by using some instruments. If these show a deviation from the corresponding normative sign, the process of collecting signs and necessity for a decision making is proximate. We discuss some types of medical signs directly related with the decision-making process, for example, normative signs, intra- and inter-subjective signs, subjective and objective or instrumental signs, scalar signs, etc. These signs create configurations of signs, and configurations of signs are the fundament of medical and decision rationing. The model of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) uses criteria that are scaled for decisions among different options, but in medicine to set criteria and scale values is a semiotic process because it refers signs. An example of AHP decision making was given for a domestic medical decision about addressability, that is, going to the medical institutions or not, but AHP can be used, and already was, in most of medical decision realm, from addressability to diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, public health policies, or strategies.</p> |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-83769-541-6 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.1001295 |