One aim of the micro-regional planning project was to clarify practical issues in decentralising health research and in sustaining decision-making based on the results of this research at the municipal level.
An algorithm-based system was designed which was capable of optimizing intelligent well control to sustain decision-making on whether or not to utilize intelligent well technology.
The proposed architecture, taking into account the need for processing heterogeneous data/information across several and different domains, is able to sustain decision-making processes deployed at operational, tactical and strategical levels.
The network lacks in this case the minimal degree of structure to sustain decision states.
Raw collecting, as Hanft would put it, is a way to increase your skill at discernment, which is critical to sustaining good decisions over time.
This study aims to analyse 6-month mortality in patients aged 80 and over following admission to an ICU, to investigate withholding/withdrawing (Wh/Wd) life sustaining treatment decisions and to identify predictors of 6-month mortality.
The research has focused on the domain expertise of the building physics expert, responsible for those inputs that sustain rational decisions with respect to energy use, thermal comfort, HVAC system sizing, etc. Prime attention has been given to thermal comfort.
Physician informants said that they usually do not consider the serious financial situation of the nation's health insurance system in their life-sustaining treatment decisions, including ANH, and they do not believe that lay people do either.
These results suggest that routine practice in Portuguese ICUs differs markedly from the European tendency toward greater involvement of other health care workers, specifically nursing staff, in life-sustaining treatment decisions, although nearly one-third of the respondents (26 35%) in the present survey indicated a wish to change this situation.
To this end, reasons for discharges AMA that have been identified only by patients or only by providers deserve due attention since both providers and patients play a critical role in developing and sustaining shared decision-making (and, consequently, shared responsibility) regarding the hospital (length of) stay and discharge outcome.
