Which cancer biomarkers are useful for making clinical decisions?
Gene signatures will become part of the routine clinical workup only if they help making clinical decisions.
The contemporary role of the nurse includes caring for and making clinical decisions about patients based on ethical principles.
"It's nonsensical to even consider that hardworking professionals would consider racially profiling anyone or making clinical decisions that are not based on clinical need.
Relative pulmonary perfusion distribution varies significantly with lung region, gender, and age, and should be considered when making clinical decisions based on pulmonary perfusion.
Conclusions: interobserver variability of CT measurements of aortic and common iliac artery diameter is not negligible and should be taken into account when making clinical decisions.
Benner claimed expert nurses use humanistic-intuitive ways of making clinical decisions rather than the 'rational reasoning' as claimed by medicine.
I encourage mental health practitioners to strengthen the degree to which they rely on empirical findings when making clinical decisions, and I encourage consumers to ask their therapists to summarize the evidence base of any therapy that they recommend.
Nevertheless, the distinction in levels of evidence between clinical, preclinical, and theoretical/inferential may be important for patients and physicians when making clinical decisions and represents a clear area of need for data-interpretation research.
As Dr Ameet Bakhai, consultant cardiologist at the Royal Free trust, told the summit, machines making clinical decisions on their own without that human context could fail to meet Isaac Asimov's first law for robots of "do no harm".
While awaiting these promising developments, clinicians should be cautious when making clinical decisions based on individual values of the SpHb.
