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  2. Evidence-based nursing - Wikipedia

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    The Iowa Model is used to promote quality of care. It is a guideline for nurses in their decision-making process. The decision making can include clinical and administration practices. These practices affect patient outcomes. The model is based on problem-solving steps that are a part of the scientific process.

  3. Decision theory - Wikipedia

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    Prescriptive decision theory is concerned with predictions about behavior that positive decision theory produces to allow for further tests of the kind of decision-making that occurs in practice. In recent decades, there has also been increasing interest in "behavioral decision theory", contributing to a re-evaluation of what useful decision ...

  4. Prescriptive analytics - Wikipedia

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    Prescriptive analytics is the third and final phase of business analytics, which also includes descriptive and predictive analytics. [2] [3] Referred to as the "final frontier of analytic capabilities", [4] prescriptive analytics entails the application of mathematical and computational sciences and suggests decision options for how to take advantage of the results of descriptive and ...

  5. Clinical pathway - Wikipedia

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    A clinical pathway is a multidisciplinary management tool based on evidence-based practice for a specific group of patients with a predictable clinical course, in which the different tasks (interventions) by the professionals involved in the patient care are defined, optimized and sequenced either by hour (ED), day (acute care) or visit (homecare).

  6. Decision aids - Wikipedia

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    Decision aids are interventions or tools designed to facilitate shared decision-making and patient participation in health care decisions.. Decision aids help patients think about choices they face; they describe where and why choice exists; and they provide information about options, including, where reasonable, the option of taking no action. [1]

  7. Option grid - Wikipedia

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    The Option Grid Collaborative is a not-for-profit group of over 90 people, made up of patient representatives, medical experts, and clinicians involved in supporting shared decision making via the creation of Option Grids.

  8. Evidence-based medicine - Wikipedia

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    For example, UpToDate was created in the early 1990s. [53] The Cochrane Collaboration began publishing evidence reviews in 1993. [44] In 1995, BMJ Publishing Group launched Clinical Evidence, a 6-monthly periodical that provided brief summaries of the current state of evidence about important clinical questions for clinicians. [54]

  9. Prescriptivity - Wikipedia

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    Prescriptivity is a term used in meta-ethics to state that when an evaluative judgment or decision is made it must either prescribe or condemn. The word implies that these judgments (and the prescription and condemnation) logically commit us to certain ways of living.