Improving health through better nutrition of the population may contribute to enhanced efficiency and sustainability of healthcare systems. A recent expert meeting investigated in detail a number of methodological aspects related to the discipline of nutrition economics. The role of nutrition in health maintenance and in the prevention of non-communicable diseases is now generally recognised. H...

Since the 1990s, the concept of ‘evidence based medicine’ (EBM) has received growing interest. Its main rationale was the recognition that systematic synthesis of evidence from high quality clinical research should be guiding clinical practice. Important developments in EBM included the introduction of structured abstracts and of systematic reviews. Nowadays, EBM can be described as ‘healthcare...

Improving health through better nutrition of the population may contribute to enhanced efficiency and sustainability of healthcare systems. A recent expert meeting investigated in detail a number of methodological aspects related to the discipline of nutrition economics. The role of nutrition in health maintenance and in the prevention of non-communicable diseases is now generally recognised. H...

Knowledge and training in evidence-based medicine is essential for informed clinical decision-making and treatment choices. Systematic reviews identify, appraise and synthesize research-based evidence and present it in accessible format. The Indian Council of Medical Research has promoted evidence-based medicine in India by establishing an Advanced Center for evidence based medicine that hosted...

To cite: McCulloch P. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bmjqs-2015-004863 ‘This safety stuff, it’s not rocket science’. Many readers of this journal will undoubtedly have heard this sentiment expressed by their clinical colleagues. The article by Kemper et al shows just how widely this impression of patient safety misses the mark. This high-qualit...

There are longstanding calls for inclusive education all regardless of student need or teacher capacity to meet those needs. Unfortunately, there little empirical data support full inclusion students and even less information on the role data-based decision making in specifically, though is extensive research effectiveness making. In this article, we reviewed what its education, current state e...

This commentary expands on two of the key themes briefly raised in the paper involving analysis of the evidence about key contextual influences on decisions of value. The first theme focuses on the need to explore in more detail what is called backstage decision-making looking at how actual decisions are made drawing on evidence from ethnographies about decision-making. These studies point to l...

Abstract Successfully achieving the sustainable development goals requires addressing complex, interrelated, wicked problems across multiple scales and contexts decision-making that tackles nested layers of targets interrelated social, economic environmental dimensions sustainability. The Stakeholder Approach to Risk-informed Evidence-based Decision-making (SHARED) bridges processes, tools acce...

introduction: to run a hospital effectively, managers need to have proper decision-making strategies. the managers' decision-making strategies and the staff's job satisfaction are two major factors that allow the manager to achieve the planned objectives. therefore, in this paper, these two factors were studied. methods and materials: it was a descriptive study in which the population of the st...