The application of the method provides a more structured scenario for decision making processes in R&D and also forecasts the stability of the outcome with respect to changes in the decision making criteria and relevance of benefits, risks, opportunities and costs.
Understanding patients' decision making has particular relevance during patients' deliberation over having a knee arthroplasty.
However, students began the unit with fairly high scores measuring their interest in how science knowledge guides ethical decision making (a measure of relevance), and these scores changed little postunit.
A study by Lavis found that the research-to-policy gaps were related to a myriad of factors that policymakers have to consider, such as the value attached to research evidence in decision making, and to weak relevance of the research evidence and the concerns of policy makers at a point in time [ 8].
Therefore, the aim of our study was to examine whether the quality reports and their respective quality indicators could nevertheless be useful for informed decision making by determining the relevance attributed to the reported hospital quality indicators by patients and referring physicians.
These natural categories were chosen for their potential relevance to decision making in clinical and health policy settings and to ensure adequate numbers of subjects in each category.
To address this challenge, CPHR combined two guiding principles: relevance to decision making with excellence in the academic quality of its products [ 13].
Novel techniques developed by de Bruijn and Martin [ 33] have been effective in discerning patterns in the decision making of reviewers to determine relevance of bibliographic citations.
Guidance on a minimal set of items to be reported when reviewing harms is needed to improve transparency and informed decision making, thereby greatly enhancing the relevance of systematic reviews to clinical practice.
Therefore, before cost-effectiveness results from one setting can be applied to inform decision making in other settings, the relevance of such context specific factors should be evaluated by considering the impact of the differences on the results and conclusions.
