introduction to evidence based decision making

... http://www.implementationscience.com/content/5/1/39 Page of 13 decision making and the contexts in which decision making occurs [3,23,61] In order to meet health policy objectives such as evidence- informed or evidence- based decisions, there ... 24:102-113 Clancy CM, Cronin K: Evidence- Based Decision Making: Global Evidence, Local Decisions Health Affairs 2005, 24:151-162 Fox DM: Evidence of Evidence- Based Health Policy: The Politics ... Flemming K, Fenton M: Making Sense of Research Evidence to Inform Decision- Making In Clinical Decision- Making and Judgment in Nursing Edited by: Thompson C, Dowding D Toronto: Harcourt Publishers;...

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... using images to communicate They were quick not only to describe the practical benefits relating to enhanced decision making, productivity, profits, and customer relations, but also to convey their ... nineteenth-century photography was the reduced time to create an image The introduction of easy -to- use film cameras in 1900, epitomized by the Kodak Brownie and the slogan, “You press the button, we’ll ... the ability to add “intelligence” to digital products has enabled engineers to advance their craft to the point that digital cameras and photoquality printers are now so smart, so automatic, that...

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... using images to communicate They were quick not only to describe the practical benefits relating to enhanced decision making, productivity, profits, and customer relations, but also to convey their ... nineteenth-century photography was the reduced time to create an image The introduction of easy -to- use film cameras in 1900, epitomized by the Kodak Brownie and the slogan, “You press the button, we’ll ... the ability to add “intelligence” to digital products has enabled engineers to advance their craft to the point that digital cameras and photoquality printers are now so smart, so automatic, that...

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... using images to communicate They were quick not only to describe the practical benefits relating to enhanced decision making, productivity, profits, and customer relations, but also to convey their ... nineteenth-century photography was the reduced time to create an image The introduction of easy -to- use film cameras in 1900, epitomized by the Kodak Brownie and the slogan, “You press the button, we’ll ... the ability to add “intelligence” to digital products has enabled engineers to advance their craft to the point that digital cameras and photoquality printers are now so smart, so automatic, that...

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... effect of hormonal factors on gout incidence could find the increases in serum urate induced by menopause and the protection conferred by hormone replacement therapy too modest to be of very much ... approximately 3.2 mg/dl) [5] Factors other than menopause, such as genetics, diet, medication use, comorbidities, or unknown environmental factors, must therefore also be invoked to explain the well-described ... infer from these results that the increase in serum urate of 0.34 to 0.36 mg/dl seen in Hak and Choi’s study may not be enough to significantly augment the risk for cardiovascular disease per...

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... common means of testing clinical decision- making in medical and dental education There is also some evidence that scenario -based decision- making is significantly related to actual behaviour [22] The ... PFS (score = 0) Decisions in favour were summed to create a total score out of a possible maximum of six In all scenarios, the decision to place a PFS would be following evidencebased practice ... developed to assess constructs from six models and applied to the prediction of clinical decisionmaking based on scenarios (behavioural simulation), as well as dentists' intention to place PFS to manage...

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... following the introduction of educational messages [10] Recognition of evidence to practice gaps has led to increased interest in more active strategies to disseminate and implement evidence Over ... x-rays to doctors, with radiology departments reporting that requests could be reported to the correct practice but attributed to the wrong primary care doctor In addition, we attempted to standardise ... Francis JJ, Stockton C, Eccles MP, Johnston M, Cuthbertson BH, Grimshaw JM, et al: Evidence- based selection of theories for designing behaviour change interventions: using methods based on theoretical...

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... relieved to relinquish patient education to them 'I prefer to have the nurse educator bring up insulin therapy before I get to it After 30 years in general practice, I'm somewhat hesitant to get into ... First, according to the interviewees, a significant minority of patients remained refractory to change, with many refusing to see a nurse educator Most patients found it difficult to change their ... adherence to the evidence- based guidelines The four GPs who did not experience improved adherence belonged to a stratum with a stronger baseline performance, and three of them also belonged to the...

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... facilitators to shared decision- making Shared decision- making was defined in an inclusive manner as a joint process between health professionals and patients to make decisions[5,24,25], or as decision ... of shared decision- making to practice population based on the age of the patient) were aggregated into themes (e.g., lack of agreement with the applicability of shared decision- making to practice ... facilitators to the implementation of shared decisionmaking in their clinical practice These results should improve our understanding on how to effectively translate shared decision- making into health...

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... motivation to prescribe was high and included both evidence- based and non -evidence based factors From this, clear predictions could be made about the factors that were likely to increase motivation to ... GPs who reported having already decided to change their management to try to avoid the use of antibiotics made significantly fewer scenario -based decisions to prescribe In the cross theory analysis, ... thought to be due to a decline in presentation to clinicians with no underlying decrease in prescribing to presenting cases [17] Implementation research is the scientific study of methods to promote...

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... the economic evidence base to support adaptation decisions to protect health from climate change, revealing large gaps in economic evidence The analysis suggests that the existing evidence base ... Washington, DC Assessment of Impact and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project No AF 47 34 Hutton G: In Economic evaluation of environmental health interventions to support decision making ... attributed to climate change Three major developments specific to the economics evidence base could inform policy making First, more climate change-specific health economic guidelines and tools Second,...

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... cornerstone to high-quality diabetes care [33,34] Office system and organizational factors that contribute to clinical inertia are the absence of decision support and a team approach to care ... adherence to evidencebased guidelines and to reduce clinical inertia in primary care physicians, and to therefore improve the management of glycemic control and cardio-vascular risk factors in ... will aim to improve adherence to evidencebased guidelines and to reduce the rate of clinical inertia in PCPs The term 'usual' is applied because these interventions address the principal factors...

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... Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland GIS for Environmental Decision- Making Edited by Andrew Lovett and Katy Appleton GIS and Evidence- Based Policy Making Edited by Stephen Wise and Max Craglia Dynamic ... is that if GIS is to make any contribution to evidence- based policy making, such systems must be designed with the potential users in mind One of the key elements GIS brings to the analysis of ... at Sheffield in 2002 However, in order to produce a book that is a more comprehensive review of the state of the art of research into evidence- based policy making, we have also invited additional...

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... train, or tram stop (the waiting environment) On board a mode of public transport (bus, train, and tram) Transferring between stops on foot (departure point to stop, between stops, stop to destination ... including walking from destination point to a bus stop, waiting at a bus stop, traveling on a bus, transferring between stops, and traveling from bus stop to arrival point In terms of the bus journey, ... that this could lead to the development of an evidence base that would enable management to make informed decisions about resource targeting and policy formulation, and to monitor and evaluate strategies...

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... undertaken to disseminate crime mapping and analysis e-mails to all subscribers to discover the main GIS used within U.S crime mapping The survey was conducted during 11–31 October 2000, and a total ... clustering, the method takes into account autocorrelation so that points are weighted according to their distance from the grid cell centroid Also, they not have to adhere to socially constructed boundaries ... exploratory, map -based tools Its primary strengths are first that it is sensitive to the nature of police data and the uncertainties, which are a feature of such data Second, it is sensitive to the...

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... approach is to merge the physical assessment of flood risk with the social assessment of vulnerability to produce an IFV to the unit postcode level The index is used to create a prototype decision- support ... are used for emergency response that requires precise and up -to- date information for efficient decision- making on how to respond to changes in circumstances (Table 7.2) No systems-in-use consider ... heating’’ to total ED properties Assumes properties without central heating are equally vulnerable No data to indicate the contrary % of ‘‘no car’’ Assumes properties properties to total without...

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... query code number and a tolerance direction for the deprivation tolerance value, which allowed tolerance values to be set around the deprivation quintile value, or set the tolerance value one way ... time it took to run the RASCAL program was related to the complexity of the query, with simple queries taking milliseconds and complex queries taking from between minutes to several days to run ... recorded 8.2.3 Storage of Information All the information relating to each ED was stored on one space-separated text file The file contained three parts Part held, on one line, the total number...

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... defined Thus H (TO) ¼ H(UAi) þ H(RUi) or H (TO) ¼ H(UAi) þ H(UXi) þ H(NSi) þ H(XCi) and specifically H (TO) ¼ H(UA1) þ H(UX1) þ H(NS1) þ H(XC1): Sutton x c Mansfield c Z Alfreton Kirkby Pinxton Ravenshead ... regard to the name or urban-area serial number attached to the place Automated application of the city as polygon metaphor within GIS might potentially lead to interpretations too literal to be ... attempts to exploit existing address list data, and to move beyond cartographic tropes which at the microscale treat the building as an atom (failing to account for its further division into units...

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