Decision making processes in sports refereeing and in medical diagnostics appear, at a first sight, quite different. In sports a number of rules exist, and they can essentially be subdivided into objective and subjective ones. Objective rules concern those decisions, on the part of the referee, in which there is no margin of doubt regarding the decision itself. Subjective rules, on the contrary, must take into account the intention or the will of the player, and so involve a subjective interpretation. In clinical medicine there appears to be a continually changing situation, also due to the need for continuous adaptation to the modifying ethical principles, attitudes and expectations of human beings. Physicians are, as a consequence, called upon to make decisions regarding their patients in conditions of varying degrees of certainty and in different operational contexts. These may alternatively or simultaneously involve subjective and objective elements, and in particular creativeness, health statistics, biomedical experimentation, and/or supporting scientific evidence. Therefore the decision making processes in sports and in medicine may be recognized as containing common elements. Mechanisms of improvement in the two fields should be elaborated in the awareness of the complex nature of both sports refereeing and medical diagnosis.

Decision making processes in sports and in medicine: refereeing the game / Conti AA; Gensini GF; Galanti G; Conti A.. - In: CLINICAL JOURNAL OF SPORT MEDICINE. - ISSN 1050-642X. - STAMPA. - 20:(2010), pp. 402-404.

Decision making processes in sports and in medicine: refereeing the game.

CONTI, ANDREA;GENSINI, GIAN FRANCO;GALANTI, GIORGIO;CONTI, ANTONIO
2010

Abstract

Decision making processes in sports refereeing and in medical diagnostics appear, at a first sight, quite different. In sports a number of rules exist, and they can essentially be subdivided into objective and subjective ones. Objective rules concern those decisions, on the part of the referee, in which there is no margin of doubt regarding the decision itself. Subjective rules, on the contrary, must take into account the intention or the will of the player, and so involve a subjective interpretation. In clinical medicine there appears to be a continually changing situation, also due to the need for continuous adaptation to the modifying ethical principles, attitudes and expectations of human beings. Physicians are, as a consequence, called upon to make decisions regarding their patients in conditions of varying degrees of certainty and in different operational contexts. These may alternatively or simultaneously involve subjective and objective elements, and in particular creativeness, health statistics, biomedical experimentation, and/or supporting scientific evidence. Therefore the decision making processes in sports and in medicine may be recognized as containing common elements. Mechanisms of improvement in the two fields should be elaborated in the awareness of the complex nature of both sports refereeing and medical diagnosis.
2010
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402
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Conti AA; Gensini GF; Galanti G; Conti A.
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