Practice–Research Partnerships and Mentoring to Foster Evidence-Based Decision Making

Practice–Research Partnerships and Mentoring to Foster Evidence-Based Decision Making

When practitioners take an evidence-based approach to chronic disease prevention, they undertake several important processes (1): 1) making decisions based on the best available scientific and rigorous program evaluation evidence; 2) applying program planning and quality improvement frameworks; 3) engaging the community and stakeholders in assessment and decision making; 4) adapting evidence-ba...

Reflective Decision-Making and Foster Care Placements

Using patient decision aids to promote evidence-based decision making.

Evidence-based medicine integrates clinical experience with patients’ values and the best available evidence. In the past, clinicians took responsibility not only for being well informed about the benefits and harms of medical options but also for judging their value in the best interests of the patients. More recently, a shared decision making approach has been advocated in which patients are ...

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...

Patient-centered, evidence-based decision making.

Butler • Editorial M physicians are committed to providing evidence-based care that is patient-centered and responsive to the clinical circumstances and values of each individual patient. However, there is increasing pressure from payers and those who attempt to define and measure quality in medical encounters for physicians to uniformly apply clinical guidelines to patients and minimize varian...