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O*NET detailed work activityEvaluate treatment options to guide medical decisions
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This is an accountable judgment call. Someone has to weigh the full situation and stand behind the decision, and that's you, often with legal or professional responsibility.
Part of Evaluate patient or client condition or treatment options, under the O*NET work activity group Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Select and prescribe medications to address patient needs.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Assess the risks and benefits of therapies for allergic and immunologic disorders.
- Consider Western medical procedures in health assessment, health care team communication, and care referrals.
- Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions.
- Assess the risks and benefits of treatment termination for clients.
- Identify and communicate risks associated with specific neurological surgical procedures, such as epilepsy surgery.
- Compare nuclear medicine procedures with other types of procedures, such as computed tomography, ultrasonography, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, and angiography.