Clinical decision making: What is the evidence?

What is the Clinical Skills Learning Center?

With shorter periods of hospitalazation, fewer patient beds and more health care facilities in the society, patients are now more acutely ill and highly dependent, causing less opportunities for medical students to practice and learn basic clinical skills. On the other hand, enhanced patient rights and other learnig limitations require that professional education provide not only knowledge and ...

Research information in nurses' clinical decision-making: what is useful?

AIM To examine those sources of information which nurses find useful for reducing the uncertainty associated with their clinical decisions. BACKGROUND Nursing research has concentrated almost exclusively on the concept of research implementation. Few, if any, papers examine the use of research knowledge in the context of clinical decision-making. There is a need to establish how useful nurses...

Supporting shared decision making when clinical evidence is low.

Shared decision making (SDM) is the process of providing the patient with critical information that can support his or her informed participation in decision making. Shared decision making has become accepted as an important component of quality health care. Influenced by its foundations in law and ethics and by empirical work on its value as a tool to reduce variability in care, a perception h...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

What is the Clinical Skills Learning Center (CSLC)?

With shorter periods of hospitalization, fewer in patient beds and more health care facilities in the society patients are now more acutely ill and highly dependent, causing less opportunities for medical students to practice and learn basic clinical skills. On the other hand, enhanced patient rights and other learning limitations require that professional education provide not only knowledge a...