17 Evaluating the effect of drugs on universal health outcomes such as survival, function, and symptom burden that are affected by most conditions and are important to people could lay the foundation for an evidence based approach to drug decision making for people with multiple coexisting conditions.
For example, Lutfey and colleagues recently used a vignette based approach to do precisely this for clinical decision making scenarios involving Coronary Heart Disease and Depression [ 46- 49].
Making critical decisions without an evidence based approach to commissioning services could potentially be highly costly and have a negative effect on the system as a whole.
A gist-based approach to decision making results in simple, black-and-white conclusions of good or bad, safe or dangerous, she and Dr. Farley wrote.
Scaled performance metrics replace the more common and traditional advocacy-based approach to decision making.
The tool reflects a casuistic, or case-based, approach to decision making, which parallels the way medical decisions are routinely made.
Beliefs drive decisions unless the company and business leaders have deliberately worked with values as a principle-based approach to decision making.
A structured and team-based approach to decision making regarding hospital grounds and community access privileges appeared to reduce the overall rate of absconding without slowing community reintegration of forensic patients.
A later subsection of this article (architectural evaluation) further compares and analyzes workflow technology-based approach to decision support in comparison to other decision support platform using an architectural evaluation model [ 15].
Muir Gray regarded this definition as too doctor-centric and expanded it to emphasize the importance of the patient perspective and proposed that, " …evidence based clinical practice is an approach to decision making in which the clinician uses the best scientific evidence available, in consultation with the patient, to decide upon the option which suits the patient best".
In response to the need for more sustainable business practices, this paper presents an approach to decision support based on the idea of "critical systems engineering".
