The paucity of Japanese decisions involving automobile accidents, manufacturer's liability for defective products, and nuisance may be surprising to Westerners, who also may note the small size of the Japanese bar and the persistence of extralegal methods of resolving disputes.
Despite the paucity of data, decisions regarding resource allocation in health care have to be made.
Given the paucity of ACP decision aids for use in high-risk surgical settings [ 24, 25] and evidence that ACP in surgical settings can be met with challenges [ 26, 27], the purpose of this study was to examine the appropriateness of using decision aids to support ACP among high-risk surgery populations as well as to examine the design of such decision aids.
But policymakers must still make decisions regardless of the availability (or paucity) of evidence to inform such decisions.
There is a paucity of research into developing decision-theoretic frameworks for hospital report cards.
The paucity of evidence to support clinical decisions is emphasized and the need for well designed diagnostic and therapeutic studies is highlighted.
However there is a paucity of published evidence on how decisions on reasonable adjustments are made for physiotherapy students, and the impact of these on learning and student progression.
Despite having extensive literature in the field of clinical decision-making, there remains a paucity of formal studies to understand this decision making process.
Although educators wanted specific guidance on how to teach OME, there is a paucity of evidence to inform these educational decisions [ 31].
Further complicating treatment decisions are the paucity of adequately powered placebo-controlled clinical trial data for some of the most common agents used in the treatment of PsA, most notably methotrexate.
Nonetheless, we have commented in this paper on the paucity of detailed recording of best interests decisions, the importance of a narrative account in determining best interests and the manner in which capacity assessments seem to predict decisions about outcome, because capacity and best interests are conflated by the use of an outcomes approach to capacity assessments.
