The difference among these studies is in the applied evaluation criteria and in the type of approach selected.
The applied evaluation approaches should be extended because they, e.g., did not fully succeed in measuring the impacts of foresight results on project beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Since 2001 the authors have been working on the holistic approach for disaster risk assessment and have developed and applied evaluation methodologies and metrics for this objective (Cardona 2001, 2004a, b, 2011; Carreño 2006; Carreño et al. 2007b).
Use concerns how real people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experience the evaluation process.
In future studies, researchers should attempt to apply evaluation methods that give rise to strong evidence, in particular experiments and quasi-experimental studies.
So in a future trial, where patients were to be randomized between evaluation with either CT or FDG-PET/CT, individual treatment course could to some degree differ depending on the applied evaluation method and might thereby influence treatment duration.
Audit (data gathered about the processes and/or outcomes of patient care) coupled with feedback (data provided to members of the organization) is one of the most commonly applied evaluation methods in healthcare organizations.
This was indeed observed in most cases (Tables 2 and 3) and emphasizes the extent to which interpretation of results depends on the details of the applied evaluation method.
Instead of applying objective evaluation, we recall the emotions attached to previous decisions.
