Cardiologists were asked, in a nationwide survey, to weigh different clinical factors in decision-making regarding patient admission and treatment using realistic descriptions of patients in which specific characteristics are varied in a systematic way (eg, web-based clinical vignettes).
To determine how cardiologists weigh different clinical factors (eg, relative importance) in their decision to admit or to treat a patient, binary choice experiments are conducted using vignettes of clinical cases.
In addition to scientific evidence, policy-makers need to weigh up different factors such as the values of stakeholders, budgets, cost-effectiveness, broader perspectives, political decisions and aims, other, perhaps more relevant, evidence than the existing evidence of effect, prudent practices, and commonsense understandings that are obvious, but not supported by research evidence.
Concerning the weighting phase, not only was it taken into considerations that factors do not have the same importance in one scenario, but also that the same factor might weigh differently in different scenarios.
A growing body of research is emerging which highlights that GPs, far from acting out of ignorance, consider the diagnostic process as a nuanced weighing up of many different factors, varying between patients depending on the specifics of each case.
Thus, students apparently have difficulty weighing and integrating the different factors affecting the movement of molecules in solution.
These three factors are weighed differently for different applications; naturally, for DC postdoc fellows--there is also a senior-fellow category--professional development carries a lot of weight.
This paper presents a parametric study regarding impact on energy consumption for different factors and the weighing associated.
Money weighs differently in different countries.
This is quite illustrative of how the different factors seem to be constantly weighed against one another but also intertwined when the informants are describing incidents of making discretionary choices.
