Clinicians relied heavily on informal assessment or observations, contextual information and clinical judgement.
A respondent may proceed through each cognitive step less diligently when providing a survey response or they may omit information retrieval and judgement completely (examples of weak and strong satisficing respectively).
Design is a complicated area consisting of a combination of rules, technical information and personal judgement.
The reviewers had to integrate all the relevant sources of information and make judgement based on their own criteria.
Concurrently, the doctor filled out a health status form that included diagnostic, therapeutic and social information and a judgement of patient's QoL (Table 1).
So how do we help this generation wade through constant information, opinions and judgements to support them in growth of their own, very precious identity?
The processes, in contrast with traditional approaches that rely heavily on the opinions of experts, demand systematic and transparent approaches to access, synthesise and interpret research evidence; and to integrate that evidence with the other information, values and judgements to formulate recommendations.
The postnatal questionnaire measured the course of pregnancy and delivery, the STAI state, screen-related anxiety, satisfaction about information, and the overall judgement about the screening program.
Brickman is a quiet man who sits back, drinks in information and makes sensible judgements.
There is no inherent conflict between action to provide more and better information on the costs, outcomes and evidence base for different interventions, and work to strengthen the processes for debating that information and arriving at judgements on priorities.
