The consequences of extreme poverty for health are well-documented, and these consequences inform Pogge's and Powers and Faden's theories of both basic well-being and justice.
Similar studies should evaluate intervention consequences, inform and improve best practice, and should be widely applied by management agencies.
The illness concept, with its description (definition), clinical symptoms, signs and laboratory tests (criteria), and consequences (outcome), inform clinical reasoning and diagnosis.
As a consequence, informed preferences seem more stable and enduring [34 36].
As a consequence, informed patients can start asking straight questions and engage in useful discussions with their doctors, for example, about acceptable therapy strategies.
Understanding that disrupter versus builder orientations are linked to both positive and negative consequences can inform entrepreneurs' decisions around attracting as well as retaining resources.
In the latter, TA performs a role described by Smits and Leyten (1991) as the "tracker dog" of TA [23]: as an ongoing process of identifying and analysing developments in science, technology, and innovation, anticipating their (potential) consequences, and informing or even organising discussions around them.
Given these findings, the potentially advantageous consequences of informing patients of familial DM risk may be considerable.
A better understanding of falls and their potential consequences may inform both clinicians and health service planners.
As the enquiry into excess mortality at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust in England critically shows the consequences of poorly informed experiments to improve the efficiency of the nursing workforce can be disastrous.
