Prof. Hricak names three categories in which imaging impacts PM: treatment decision-making, treatment planning and treatment follow-up.
The goal of this study was to capture the entire clinical procedure of abscesses, termed incision and drainage (IND), from the time of patient presentation to clinical decision-making, treatment, and subsequent gauze removal.
Accurate diagnosis is essential for clinical decision-making, treatment planning, prognostication and sometimes also for legal purposes.
It is an important outcome variable in cancer patients [ 10], because it affects the prognosis, and it can be used for patient monitoring, clinical decision-making, treatment, symptom management and planning of supportive care interventions [ 11].
The proper use of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measurement in clinical settings has become increasingly important to obtain more comprehensive information to guide clinical decision-making, treatment planning, and clinical management [ 1].
Irrespective the great strides being made in biomarker identification, there are as yet unmet needs in developing standards and guidelines that define toxicology, clinical phenotyping,, dosage decision making, treatment attrition decisions, and patient stratification.
In psychiatry, comparative analyses of therapeutic options and the aggregation of data from clinical trials across different therapeutic approaches play an important role in clinical decision making, treatment guidelines, and health policy.
Prognostic factors aid clinical decision making, treatment selection for individual patients and allow comparisons between groups of patients at risk of recurrence or death.
Our findings are relevant for neonatologists, paediatricians, physicians, psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, teachers and parents in their decision making, treatment, counselling, teaching and helping children growing up.
GJ, GYK were involved in the direct clinical care (diagnosis, decision making, treatment, operative intervention, postoperative care) of patient 1. ER was involved in the direct clinical care (diagnosis, decision making, treatment, operative intervention, postoperative care) of patient 2. KT and KS were involved in the direct clinical care of both patients.
Such insights are crucial in reforming health services so that care systems would become more patient centred by enhancing patients' satisfaction and participation in decision making, treatment compliance, and other parameters of quality of care (13).
