Low Ah Kee advises organizations to start with a well-articulated (preferably, written) strategy and a commitment to gather only as much detailed data as is necessary for decision-making.
The ability to modify such conclusions at a later time facilitates decision-making processes by offering a new dimension of compromise on both scientific assessment and policy decisions, and lowering the threshold of credibility necessary for decision-making.
Computer-based decision support systems have been proposed as a tool to improve the decision-making of less-experienced personnel by reducing the information processing demands necessary for decision-making.
The authors describe the initiation of a course of peanut-specific OIT in a hospital allergy department using a procedure designed to ensure maximum safety and which includes the laboratory assays necessary for decision-making and monitoring of the evolution of the therapy.
That not only means competent people, but it means forging them via the honest and open discussion that is necessary for decisions to be made -- forging the groundwork for honest and open discussions.
