When is evidence sufficient for decision-making? A framework for understanding the pace of evidence adoption

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

Decision making framework for utsourcing activities in the banking system

The outsourcing of financial services has been growing during last decades.Inspite of expanding managers awareness about this subject,most of outsourcing projects have been lost due to qualifative decision critera and ignorance of environmental circumstances. The purpose of research is to design a model for making decision about outaourcing activities in banking system.From the point of purpos...

Supporting shared decision making when clinical evidence is low.

Shared decision making (SDM) is the process of providing the patient with critical information that can support his or her informed participation in decision making. Shared decision making has become accepted as an important component of quality health care. Influenced by its foundations in law and ethics and by empirical work on its value as a tool to reduce variability in care, a perception h...

Classifying scientific evidence as the basis for evidence-based decision making: is strength of evidence absolute?

Background One of the most challenging aspects of evidence-based decision making is the appraisal of the available evidence in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. It has been stated that “not all evidence is created equal” (Cochrane Consumer Network Levels of evidence), and it has been recommended to grade the available literature by the strength of evidence as determined by the methods...

The Feasibility of Evidence- based Decision Making in a Toxicology Emergency Case

Evidence- Based Medicine (EBM) aims to bring the best available evidence into clinical practice.  Different clinical methods of education such as in-patient rounds, follow up rounds, out-patients rounds, group sessions, grand rounds, lectures, and journal clubs could be held by EBM approach. The current text presents two interrelated case reports; a case report of EBM decision making in an emer...