Best evidence and the clinical decision making process

Best evidence and the clinical decision making process.

The articles by Helfenstein 1 and Newcombe 2 highlight the difficulties faced by clinicians in making a treatment decision for their patient when confronted by contradictory evidence. We are now faced with an ever increasing array of data of variable quality, which all need to be considered, for us to reach the best treatment decision for our patients. Systematic reviews, the cornerstone of evi...

Evidence-based decision making in action: Part 1--Finding the best clinical evidence.

The purpose of this article is to introduce evidence-based concepts and demonstrate how to find valid evidence to answer clinical questions. Evidence-based decision making (EBDM) requires understanding new concepts and developing new skills including how to: ask good clinical questions, conduct a computerized search, critically appraise the evidence, apply the results in clinical practice, and ...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

Clinical decision making based on evidence.

2 urgeons make decisions with patients about when to operate and when to recommend nonoperative are on a daily basis. We must decide when to invesigate and which investigations to order. If it is to be urgery, the decision on which operation is the best hould, ideally, be based on prospective, randomized ontrolled studies, free of bias and relevant to the linical decision. However, in many case...

The narrative analysis of decision-making process to remarriage

This study was done to investigate female heads of household’s decision-making process for remarriage and its barriers. Since an important part of these women’s life was not researchable through questionnaires and details of their life would be omitted, it's felt the need to do qualitative work; therefore, it's a qualitative study by narrative analysis strategy in which we used both...