Given these observations, it seems reasonable to individualize decisions on anti-thrombotic therapy in patients with MBs.
Since the decision to screen or not depends in part on an individual patient's values and how comfortable he or she is in undergoing procedures, we present a range of absolute risk reduction thresholds to inform clinicians and patients so they can individualize decisions about screening for colorectal cancer.
Certainly, individualizing decision aids presents challenges.
In the first phase, we developed and tested key messages which would facilitate individualized decision making for elders.
Quality-improvement measures, which tie doctors' compensation to how closely they follow evidence-based practice guidelines, further complicate matters, and some worry that they provide a financial incentive for physicians to sacrifice individualized decision-making.
According to Peter Wright and Pamela Wright (2007), "the Act [IDEA] and regulations recognize that IEP teams must make individualized decisions about the special education … IDEA's strong preference that, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities be educated in regular classes with their nondisabled peers with appropriate supplementary aids and services" (p. 209).
Instead, it's because the life-or-death decision in a capital murder case is one of the most sensitive, individualized decisions in the American legal system, and if the process is properly followed and the decision-makers take their roles seriously -- both of which appear to have been the case -- it's difficult to disagree with the ultimate decision.
The following commonly occurring clinical scenarios compare and contrast current and future applications of information support to facilitate individualized decision-making.
Under such circumstances, doctors and patients should weigh the benefits and risks of second-look procedures in order to permit more individualized decision-making.
The whole essence of circularity is its ability to see the whole problem within a patient-centered and human therapeutic perspective, allowing rigorous evidence, individualized decision-making at the clinical interface.
