Making Hemp Choices: Evidence from Vermont

Screening for disease: making evidence-based choices.

Screening for illness should be an evidence-based activity. Screening tests are useful only if they reduce mortality or morbidity. Therefore, healthcare professionals must know how to evaluate research about screening tests to be sure that, in fact, the tests actually accomplish their goals. Tests that generate many false-positive results may cause harm from anxiety and unnecessary procedures. ...

Hard Choices: The Role of Evidence in Clinical Decision- Making

The pressure to improve the quality of patient care while controlling costs affects both wealthy countries, such as the United States and Western European nations, and countries going through economic restructuring such as those in the NIS and CEE. Clinicians are being driven to search for and identify sources of cost that do not produce commensurate benefit to patients. Newly-developed treatme...

Making safer treatment choices

Integrated Decision Making – The Choices

Making Fair Choices: a symposium.

Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage (World Health Organisation, 2014) offers an analysis of how lowand middle-income countries may follow a path to universal health care in ways consistent with principles of fairness. The report addresses three questions. Which services should policymakers expand first? To whom priority should be given when extending coverage? and Shoul...