The specific skills include ability to judge and evaluate evidence; understanding the complexity and diversity of situations, including organisations themselves; collecting information; making reasoned and logical arguments.
Users were shown to have well-defined attitudes to objects, broadly characterised within nine categories: 'Future Value, Public Valueue and Evidence', 'Understanding the Present', 'Content and Learning', Personal Meaning and Identity', 'Discovery and Engagement', 'Rarity', 'Materials and Sensory Experience' and 'Connection to the Past'.
The application of COMER in decision-making may allow decision-makers to move from evidence-based medicine to economic evaluation based on evidence, understanding evidence within a comprehensive framework where both clinical and economic evidence are compatible.
This means using evidence to explain phenomena, making claims and backing such with evidence, understanding causality, and evaluating arguments and information with reference to rational criteria (e.g., is the evidence logically coherent?; Chinn, Duncan, Dianovsky, & Rinehart, 2013).
Despite this evidence, understanding patient perception of quality can be of great value to franchises in order to appeal to existing and potential customers, and client satisfaction has been found to be a principal determinant of uptake and continued utilization of family planning services [ 23, 24, 26, 27].
Authoritative and rigorously developed guidelines should (where possible) feature transparent and fully reported: guideline group methods and participation; involvement of stakeholders and sponsors; reporting and use of evidence and linking of recommendation to evidence; understanding of health care delivery, the policy context and narratives of patient experience.
This module focused on four core EBM skills of (1) formulating clinical questions, (2) searching the evidence, (3) understanding levels of evidence and quantitative results for therapy articles, (4) and critical appraisal skills including validity and applicability[ 9].
Understanding and interpreting the scientific evidence involves understanding the available levels of evidence, where systematic reviews and meta-analyses of clinical trials are at the top of the levels-of-evidence pyramid.
But if we are to make informed decisions on health and technology, misplaced fear of the unknown or dogmatic convictions are simply no substitute for evidence and understanding.
