Decision Sciences and Evidence-based Medicine—Two Intellectual Movements to Support Clinical Decision Making

Clinical decision making based on evidence.

2 urgeons make decisions with patients about when to operate and when to recommend nonoperative are on a daily basis. We must decide when to invesigate and which investigations to order. If it is to be urgery, the decision on which operation is the best hould, ideally, be based on prospective, randomized ontrolled studies, free of bias and relevant to the linical decision. However, in many case...

Decision Making and Decision Support

Decision boxes for clinicians to support evidence-based practice and shared decision making: the user experience

BACKGROUND This project engages patients and physicians in the development of Decision Boxes, short clinical topic summaries covering medical questions that have no single best answer. Decision Boxes aim to prepare the clinician to communicate the risks and benefits of the available options to the patient so they can make an informed decision together. METHODS Seven researchers (including fou...

Decision-Support Planning and Tools: Planning to Support Decision-Making

As the Army increases its focus on decisive action, more units are emphasizing decision-support templates and matrices as part of the planning process. Unfortunately, these tools have only minimally impacted tactical decision-making and mission outcomes because leaders are using these tools as another synchronization tool rather than focusing on decision points. When used correctly, decision-su...

Clinical Decision-Making: a Way to Professional Empowerment in Nursing

Background. The dynamic and uncertain nature of health care environment requires nurses to be competent decision makers and to respond to the clients needs. Recently, the public and the government have criticized Iranian nurses because of a low quality patient care. However, the nurses’ views and experiences concern- ing the factors affecting their clinical practice and clinical decision making...