Doctors and nurses, specialists say, work in complex decision-making settings.
The decision-making settings were health authorities (8), public health units (2), hospitals (4), community-based health organizations (2), and other health care organizations or jurisdictions (3).
Once the reserve of governments, there has been a rearrangement of responsibilities and inclusion of non-state actors in collective health decision-making settings, a change that has been summed up "as representing the transition from a world of governments to a world of governance" [ 39].
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.
For decision making in clinical settings in Japan, physicians traditionally prefer to confer with family, not the patient [ 20].
Presence of a patient's decisional capacity is an important aspect of decision making in clinical settings.
The findings of this study should spare medical cost and reduce morbidity time for many patients, relevant for decision making in clinical settings.
For decision making in refugee settings, weight for height surveys or screenings are the most efficient strategies for nutritional data collection [ 14].
The next step is to try and understand decision making in real settings by collecting data on antidepressant prescriptions from patient records.
