Hard Problems Need “Soft” Science: Integrating Quality of Life into Treatment Decision Making

Integrating Environment into Decision-making in Africa

Integrating clinical research into clinical decision making.

Evidence-based medicine has placed a general priority on knowledge gained from clinical research for clinical decision making. However, knowledge derived from empiric, population-based research, while valued for its ability to limit bias, is not directly applicable to the care of individual patients. The gap between clinical research and individual patient care centers on the fact that empiric ...

Quality function deployment: Integrating comprehensive matrix and SWOT analysis for effective decision making

In this ever-changing business scenario, the manufacturing product industries have to be in position to rec-ognize the ever changing pulse and demands of the market. Customer satisfaction and quality management has become a strategic issue for companies in the new millennium. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) lit-erature suggests that building up the House of Quality (HoQ) is not a difficult ta...

Need to prioritise: end-of-life decision-making in India.

recent prospective, observational study compared 1,252 ICU patients who received oral care with 414 historical controls who did not receive oral care [4]. The incidence rate of VAP was significantly lower in the oral care group than in the non-oral care group. The recent study of KOEMAN et al. [5] reported the results of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with three arms: chlo...

Solution of the Decision Making Problems using Fuzzy Soft Relations

The Fuzzy Modeling has been applied in a wide variety of fields such as Engineering and Management Sciences and Social Sciences to solve a number Decision Making Problems which involve impreciseness, uncertainty and vagueness in data. In particular, applications of this Modeling technique in Decision Making Problems have remarkable significance. These problems have been tackled using various th...