One former cabinet minister recounted an episode when his civil servants suggested they were not allowed to exercise "judgment" when evaluating bids.
The objective assessment of an abstract's quality is made more difficult, however, by evidence suggesting that reviewers' judgments vary widely when evaluating others' work[ 6], even when the reviewers are considered "expert" in the field.
At a review level the EPPI-Centre method requires the "judgment of reviewers when evaluating the extent to which an intervention meets a recommendation from the qualitative synthesis" [ 38], particularly so if the latter evidence base is derived from unrelated process evaluations.
Until more definite evidence becomes available however, judgment should be used when evaluating patients with blunt head trauma with associated LOC, when deciding whether to obtain a brain CT scan.
Please note, expert judgment must be applied when evaluating the full body of evidence to account for differences in the strength of variant evidence.
cMeasured documented temperature of >38°C is preferred; however, clinical judgment should be used when evaluating patients for whom temperature of >38°C has not been documented.
In each case individual judgment is of importance when evaluating whether or not the demand for liability has been met [ 20, 22].
Our direct prediction strategy yields performance superior to that of the state-of-the-art decomposition techniques when evaluating reflectance judgments against ground-truth on the Intrinsic Images in the Wild dataset.
As individual judgment is an important factor when evaluating and handling risk in health care situations, it is ethically important to investigate how this is done in homeopathic clinical practices.
