Sentence examples for and decision support techniques from inspiring English sources

Therefore, tacit assessment management can be facilitated through technologies commonly used in knowledge management systems such as databases, Internet architectures, artificial intelligence, and decision support techniques.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that traditional problem solving and decision support techniques, based on optimisation and factual knowledge, have to be combined with stakeholder based policy design and implementation.

In order to systematically analyze environmental effects of energy activities and optimally allocate energy resources/services for supporting sustainable energy development, it is desired that effective policy analysis and decision-support techniques be developed (Huang and Chang, [2003]; Olabi, [2012]).

We will search the following electronic bibliographic database: PubMed (see box 2), The Cochrane Library, CINAHL, EMBASE and PsycINFO using, where appropriate, medical subject heading (MeSH) terms: "abortion, induced", "choice behavior", "patient education", "decision support techniques" and "decision making" and/or key words with Boolean operators (see online supplementary appendix 1).

As a meta-assessment approach, CEA combines various features and outcomes of existing assessment methods, including life-cycle based approaches, decision support techniques, cost benefit analysis, and other such tools, along with the basic risk assessment paradigm.

We combined keywords and Medical Subject Heading terms for shared decision-making, decision-making, patient participation, doctor-patient relationship, informed decision, decision support, decision support techniques, litigation, medical malpractice, liability, medical negligence claim and legal proceedings (see full list in Additional file 3).

The search strategy included a mix of subject headings and keywords related to the intervention (e.g., intervention, patient participation, social support, health communication), decision support techniques (e.g., decision-making-computer-assisted, decision trees), and decision-making (see Table  2).

Hence, we searched PubMed (Medline) for DAs from 01/2000 to 12/2008 for DAs using the following search strategy: ("Decision Support Techniques"[Mesh] OR ("Decision Making"[Mesh]) OR ("Decision Analysis") AND ("Therapeutics"[Mesh] OR "therapy "[Subheading] OR "Treatment Outcome" [Mesh] OR "Therapies, Investigational"[Mesh])).

But there are many other ones, sometimes not presented as decision support techniques, that help making decisions.

Among the latter, we find some well-known decision support techniques: cost-benefit analysis, multiple criteria decision analysis, decision trees,..

Although informal decision support techniques can be of interest, in this book, we will focus on formal ones.