Background and Objectives: Evidence increasingly highlights the impact of emotional intelligence in managers on the productivity and performance of their organizations. Given the importance of decision-making in the management process, this study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence and decision-making quality in hospital managers. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-...

INTRODUCTION It has been found that the decision-making process in medicine is affected, to a large extent, by one's experience, individual mentality, previous models, and common habitual approaches, in addition to scientific principles. Evidence-based medicine is an approach attempting to reinforce scientific, systematic and critical thinking in physicians and provide the ground for optimal de...

W ith all the talk about ‘‘transformation’’ in medicine, there are challenges ahead for each of us, no matter what our current practice status is. The impending change makes the need to remain current with medical knowledge and technological advances all the more crucial. Medicine has always been a lifelong learning experience over a 3to 4-decade career. Private practitioners, by virtue of thei...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED Evidence based medicine (EBM) is the conscientious, explicit, judicious and reasonable use of modern, best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. EBM integrates clinical experience and patient values with the best available research information. It is a movement which aims to increase the use of high quality clinical research in cl...

Changing physician behaviour has become an important focus of medicine over the past two decades. The rapid expansion of medical knowledge and concerns about quality of care, have led to the birth of both the practice guideline movement 5 and evidence based medicine. 7 More recently, medical informatics and patient participation in care have matured as distinct clinical and research entities. G...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) represents a paradigm change in the way in which medicine is practiced. On one level, evidence-based medicine is a formalism for integrating “research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.”5 It is not intended to supplant clinical experience, but rather to augment and strengthen it. There has been a concern voiced within the neurosurgical community t...

Shared decision-making, central to evidence-based medicine and good patient care, begins and ends with the patient. It is the process by which a clinician and a patient jointly make a health decision after discussing options, potential benefits and harms, and considering the patient's values and preferences. Patient empowerment is crucial to shared decision-making and occurs when a patient acce...

Changing physician behaviour has become an important focus of medicine over the past two decades. The rapid expansion of medical knowledge and concerns about quality of care, have led to the birth of both the practice guideline movement 5 and evidence based medicine. 7 More recently, medical informatics and patient participation in care have matured as distinct clinical and research entities. G...