Controlling Chronic Diseases Through Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Group-Randomized Trial

Controlling Chronic Diseases Through Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Group-Randomized Trial

INTRODUCTION Although practitioners in state health departments are ideally positioned to implement evidence-based interventions, few studies have examined how to build their capacity to do so. The objective of this study was to explore how to increase the use of evidence-based decision-making processes at both the individual and organization levels. METHODS We conducted a 2-arm, group-random...

Shared decision making and chronic diseases

Chronic diseases are the major cause of death and disability worldwide. Healthcare systems are reforming themselves to improve the health of people with, or at risk of developing, chronic diseases. One of the major goals of these health reforms is to provide both selfmanagement support and decision support to patients so that they become involved and informed [1]. “Shared decision making” (SDM)...

Group Decision Making through Mediated Discussions

Evaluating Construction Projects by a New Group Decision-Making Model Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic Concepts

Select an appropriate project is a main key for contractors to increase their profits. In practice, in this area the uncertainty and imprecise of the involved parameters is so high. Therefore, considering fuzzy sets theory to deal with uncertainly is more appreciate. The aim of this paper is present a multi-criteria group decision-making model under an intuitionistic fuzzy set environment. Henc...

The Feasibility of Evidence- based Decision Making in a Toxicology Emergency Case

Evidence- Based Medicine (EBM) aims to bring the best available evidence into clinical practice.  Different clinical methods of education such as in-patient rounds, follow up rounds, out-patients rounds, group sessions, grand rounds, lectures, and journal clubs could be held by EBM approach. The current text presents two interrelated case reports; a case report of EBM decision making in an emer...