There is no inherent conflict between action to provide more and better information on the costs, outcomes and evidence base for different interventions, and work to strengthen the processes for debating that information and arriving at judgements on priorities.
Ample evidence can be provided for both opinions, and the specific cases need to be scrutinized in order to arrive at a judgement.
Although we used a set of criteria to arrive at an overall judgement to make our review more objective and systematic, quality judgement scores should always be interpreted with caution, because the use of some criteria inevitably involves a subjective element derived from the reviewer's expertise.
Britain wasn't built by people like you, it was forged by True Lionhearts; the kind of people that can down a pint in a second and arrive at a value judgement of someone based solely upon their accent even more quickly than that.
A study team with different clinical or disciplinary backgrounds might have arrived at different judgements: for example, a team with backgrounds in human factors psychology might have placed greater weight on single events or sequences of events.
Other clinical reviewers may have arrived at different judgements in terms of whether a situation was indeed a PSI, how severe it was and whether it was preventable – the reported data may therefore be an over or an under representation.
Our legislature does not lack information, it lacks a modern capacity for sorting through the information to arrive at representative, unbiased policy judgement.
The intern is expected to learn clinical skills, perform some clinical procedures and demonstrate a good clinical judgement to arrive at patient management decision.
Patients' responses and doctors' judgements are necessary to arrive at a full, clinically meaningful picture of patients' well-being and health status.
At first, the monitored locations on the floors were estimated by engineering judgement in order to arrive at a feasible number of floor nodes for post processing of the data.
