critically appraising quantitative evidence for clinical decision making

... questions and help in clinical decision- making Methods In the 1970's studies began to show that clinical measurements of LLI were inaccurate and the use of x-ray, controlling for magnification and ... seem to be clinically significant The next, more difficult and controversial question is, what is the clinical significance of LLI, and at what magnitude? How much anatomic LLI is clinically ... loading, does not appear to be clinically significant LLI between 10 – 20 mm increases the chances of clinical significance, but outside of severe, abrupt loading, the evidence is lacking Based on...

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... people with what seem to be clinically insignificant amounts of anatomic leg-length inequality Of course, it would be important for the clinician to explore reasons for any quadratus lumborum ... baseline amount, the LLAA is more of a go/ no-go test relative to a clinical decision As such, accuracy in magnitude is not critically important past that lower limit amount In other words, as ... Sci 1997, 9(1):1-6 McGill SM, Childs A, Liebenson C: Endurance times for low back stabilization exercises: clinical targets for testing and training from a normal database Arch Phys Med Rehabil...

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... metabolic alterations The potential clinical impact and the feasibility of a, likely over-simplified, concept of "metabolic staging" in the guidance and decision making for the nutritional support of ... strategy for the multiply injured patient Injury 2009, 40(Suppl 4):S27-35 doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-18-34 Cite this article as: Stahel et al., "Metabolic staging" after major trauma - a guide for clinical ... double-blind controlled clinical trial demonstrated that glutamine supplementation reduces the incidence of multiple organ failure and death attributed to infections in critically ill patients...

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... assessment is the process link in the chain between evidence and decision- making Yet formal impact assessments are not conducted for many strategic policy decisions At the project level too, impact assessment ... 2.Environmental policy 3.National health programs 3 .Decision making 4.Public policy 5.Developing countries I.Title: Health and environment; tools for effective decision- making ISBN 92 159297 (NLM classification: ... sources and instruments such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), useful for environment and health assessment and monitoring; useful references for more information on priority issues and to existing...

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... in clinical decision making rarely or not at all, and only 13.3% of therapists integrate research in clinical decision making 6+ times in a typical month The actual rate of research use in clinical ... influence the clinical decision making of physical therapists in choosing a balance assessment approach Phys Ther 2009, 89:233-247 McGlynn M, Cott CA: Weighing the evidence: clinical decision making ... class assignments and clinical internships for students to experience success in searching and appraising the research literature and incorporating it in clinical decision making (i.e., mastery...

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... methodologies and techniques for their usefulness for the EiR study, and developed a method for collecting data relating to GDG decision- making and for understanding and making inferences from these ... considering all relevant information [3,10] Improving GDG decision- making necessitates identification of influences on GDG decisions, as a basis for intervention The 'Evidence into Recommendations' ... applicability of 'evidence' , subsumes sub-themes relating to: conceptualisations of 'evidence' and its role in recommendations; decision- making in the absence of high-quality evidence; clinical judgement...

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... methodologies and techniques for their usefulness for the EiR study, and developed a method for collecting data relating to GDG decision- making and for understanding and making inferences from these ... considering all relevant information [3,10] Improving GDG decision- making necessitates identification of influences on GDG decisions, as a basis for intervention The 'Evidence into Recommendations' ... applicability of 'evidence' , subsumes sub-themes relating to: conceptualisations of 'evidence' and its role in recommendations; decision- making in the absence of high-quality evidence; clinical judgement...

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... 10.4 GIS for environmental decision- making References Part III – Participation in Decision- Making 176 179 11 Developments in Public Participation and Collaborative Environmental Decision- Making ... GIS for Environmental Decision- Making A Lovett and K Appleton 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The role of GIS 1.3 The structure of the book 1.4 Where next? 1.5 References 1 Part I – Data for Decision- Making ... develop © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC xvi GIS for environmental decision- making integrated strategies and to derive information for political decision support; and the environmental effects...

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... Lobbying / Advisory © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 94 GIS for environmental decision- making 5.4.1 The Role of Information in Decision- Making The use of GI and GIS as analytical and communicative ... titled ‘participatory geographic information science’ ‘This surge of interest in collaborative spatial decision- making in particular, and participatory decision- making more generally has been spurred ... Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 92 GIS for environmental decision- making Figure 5.4 Overall tranquillity score map for two study areas in the North East region For color versions see MacFarlane et...

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... Geostatistics, Oxford University Press Inc., New York, 1989 22 Burrough, P A and McDonnell, R A., Principles of Geographical Information Systems, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998 23 Todini, ... unconfined Sherwood Sandstone aquifer unit used for the digital water table interpolation The primary reasons for choosing the Sherwood Sandstone aquifer unit for the study were: (i) the existence of ... boundary, in the confined aquifer to the © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 104 GIS for environmental decision- making east, and five further sandstone boreholes located beyond the northern and...

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... & Francis Group, LLC 128 GIS for environmental decision- making information There is an explicit procedure to produce the final result and the entire workflow of information is transparent and ... low as possible © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 124 GIS for environmental decision- making As in the CART analysis, we transformed the MARS text report files into AML and then generated ... curve is recommended for comparing two-class classifiers, as it does not merely summarize performance at a single arbitrarily selected decision threshold, but across all possible decision thresholds20,21...

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... Geographical Information Science, 14, 173-184, 2000 © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 164 26 GIS for environmental decision- making Rinner, C and Malczewski, J., Web-enabled spatial decision analysis ... they summed to 1.0 average weight for criteria = Σ {(1-inconsistency ratio) x stakeholder weight} for stakeholder for criteria (9.1) number of stakeholders involved For each criterion it was also ... the SMCE analysis Information on the stakeholder preferences was combined with digital spatial data © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 156 GIS for environmental decision- making (20 m cell resolution)...

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... LLC 168 GIS for environmental decision- making sensed data and/or functions and perspectives may be found in a diverse range of subject areas connected with environmental decision- making, such ... Inter-connected Grid resources for management and research regarding the causes and effects of atmospheric pollution Before applying Grid-enabled GIS for science and decision making however, we need ... geographical context for the need for cultural changes and the more thorough integration of specialisms © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 174 GIS for environmental decision- making 10.2.2.1 Interdisciplinary...

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... scientists we have argued that good decision- making demands good information This argument has not changed but now it is increasingly recognized that in addition: decision- making must carry those affected ... distributions) The question for spatial analysts was (and remains): how can we put our tools and skills to work to improve decision- making and public confidence in decisions? For many people the answer ... recognized and taken into account The decision leaves me minimally worse off 181 © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 182 GIS for environmental decision- making • • • The costs and benefits are...

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... spatial decision making: scientific report for the specialist meeting, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara, 1995 15 Ball, J., Towards a methodology for mapping ... 212 GIS for environmental decision- making The answer to this first question is clearly ongoing, with a requirement for structural and internal changes to UK campuses In the meantime, can information ... Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 216 GIS for environmental decision- making Placement of the individual symbols was determined by producing simple density and contour maps for each symbol type Figure 13.2...

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... Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 230 GIS for environmental decision- making 14.2.3 Event Operation The assessment took place as part of a Landscape Research Week, the venue for which was the public hall ... QLK5-CT-2002-01017, VisuLands) are thanked for their financial support of the research reported in this chapter © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 238 GIS for environmental decision- making 14.7 REFERENCES European ... Practical Handbook for ‘Planning For Real’ Consultation Exercise, Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation, Telford, 1995 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), Participatory Planning for Sustainable...

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... development of the actor network for the Web-GIS Tourismus TUM 249 © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 250 GIS for environmental decision- making • • Interessement Once the decision to develop the Web-GIS ... Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 248 GIS for environmental decision- making revealed, the further social or political implications of GIS and its possible relevance for regional development aims were ... file © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 244 GIS for environmental decision- making 15.2.4 Web-GIS Functionality Alongside standard tools for zooming, buffering and querying, the developed WebGIS...

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... the critically ill Therefore, a place will remain for intuition, and for the human eyes, hands and brain at the critical care bedside Additional data file The following Additional data file for ... of inaccuracy, but this could be rectified in forthcoming prospective studies Furthermore, a more clinically relevant end-point could have been used For example, in sepsis and postoperative patients, ... Computer-assisted decision support system for diagnosing ventilator-assisted pneumonia Lancet Infect Dis 2005, 5:305-312 Garg AX, Adhikari NKJ, McDonald H: Effects of computerised clinical support...

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... Walther Analytics for Managerial Decision Making Budgeting and Decision Making Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analytics for Managerial Decision Making: Budgeting and Decision Making 1st edition ... eBooks at bookboon.com Analytics for Managerial Decision Making Contents Contents Part Analytics for Managerial Decision Making Cost Characteristics and Decision- Making Ramiications 1.1 Sunk Costs ... the ad to read more Analytics for Managerial Decision Making Contents Capital Expenditure Decisions 21 3.1 Management Stewardship 22 3.2 Logic Justiication of Capital Decisions 22 Compound Interest...

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... 1: Introduction Decision Matrix MCDM problems can be concisely expressed in a matrix format Suppose that there are m alternatives and n criteria in a decision- making problem A decision matrix ... the best known and highly used method of decision making Suppose there are m alternatives and n criteria in a decision- making problem An alternative’s performance is defined as (Fishburn, 1967): ... to select or rank the predefined alternatives Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the most well known branches of decision making and has been one of the fast growing problem areas during...

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