Of course ethics, not only laws, should guide policy decisions.
During the hearing, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, proposed that within six months Mr. O'Keefe prepare a cost-benefit analysis on human spaceflight to help guide policy decisions.
Case-control vaccine effectiveness studies can provide information useful to guide policy decisions and vaccine development, however rigorous preparation and design is essential.
This model is illustrated by the case of outages (planned and unplanned) in nuclear power plants to show how it can be used to guide policy decisions regarding outage frequency and plant lifetime, and more specifically, the choice of a reactor tripping policy as a function of the state of the emergency core cooling subsystem.
The qualitative part of the study was exploratory in nature and assessed whether evidence was available to guide policy decision-making, whether evidence was disseminated and discussed in relevant fora, and whether and why evidence had or had not been considered in policy development.
3– 6, 8– 10 Economic analyses are often used to guide policy decisions regarding the most efficient use of resources.
We will conduct cost and cost-effectiveness analyses to guide policy decisions and inform any subsequent scale up.
Risk identification, assessment, and management require scientific and engineering approaches to guide policy decisions to protect the public health.
Further country-specific analyses that fully deal with uncertainty are required in order to guide policy decisions relating to the incremental benefits of vaccination of boys and girls.
Impact evaluations serve multiple purposes: to create empirical evidence, to advise project management, to guide policy decisions, and to inform budget allocations [ 59].
