In screening tools, each variable should be given a score, thereby quantifying the degree of risk and allowing a direct link to a defined course of action.
Additionally, they were cautious about discussing test results if they felt they could not translate them into meaningful and clearly defined course of action for patient treatment.
[High-Risk Participant] The usefulness of biomarker values appeared to stem from their apparently 'hard,' tangible nature, and their straightforward connection to a defined course of action: PATIENT: My decision was based upon what we had for biopsies and stuff like that.
Health policy in this case is defined as "courses of action (and inaction) that affect the set of institutions, organizations, services and funding arrangements of the health system" [ 16], p.6.
Corporate foresight is applied with the expectation that it will help firms to break away from path dependency, help decision makers to define superior courses of action, and ultimately enable superior firm performance.
For the most part, it doesn't define a course of action for your choreography.
"It's about whether domestic institutions can break free of individual political actors and define a course of action for themselves independently of politicians".
"Improvident" then is defined by course of action, and the lack of an immediate definition nonetheless carries the narrative forward and the reader's curiosity about its meaning is satisfied.
I focus here on the struggles leading to the establishment of the boundaries of the GAPP accountability regime by diagnosing the accountability problem, determining the providers and the imagined users of the accounts and defining the appropriate course of action.
In 1850, the sectional differences that eventually culminated in the Civil War led to a convention to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, for the purpose of defining a common course of action for all Southern (slave-holding) states.
