... 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 ... detection and some clinical results Rheum Phys Med 1972, 11:385-390 Fisk JW, Baigent ML: Clinical and radiological assessment of leg length NZ Med J 1975:477-480 Friberg O: Clinical symptoms and...
... 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 clinicaldecision 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...
... metabolic alterations The potential clinical impact and the feasibility of a, likely over-simplified, concept of "metabolic staging" in the guidance and decisionmakingfor 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 forclinical ... 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...
... 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: ... emphasis therefore should be placed on demand-driven approaches rather than supply-side solutions that generate knowledgefor its own sake HELI aims at making best use of existing knowledge to ... assessment tools and improved overall access to knowledgefor effective environment and health decision- making A dynamic web-based portal and paper-based tool kit for communications and training are being...
... in clinicaldecisionmaking rarely or not at all, and only 13.3% of therapists integrate research in clinicaldecisionmaking 6+ times in a typical month The actual rate of research use in clinical ... class assignments and clinical internships for students to experience success in searching and appraising the research literature and incorporating it in clinicaldecisionmaking (i.e., mastery ... influence the clinicaldecisionmaking of physical therapists in choosing a balance assessment approach Phys Ther 2009, 89:233-247 McGlynn M, Cott CA: Weighing the evidence: clinicaldecision making...
... pathways by which social variables impact on group decision- making Applying theory to the study of group decision- making allows for a body of scientific knowledge on the functioning of small groups ... 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 complex ... members from 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'...
... pathways by which social variables impact on group decision- making Applying theory to the study of group decision- making allows for a body of scientific knowledge on the functioning of small groups ... 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 complex ... members from 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'...
... 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...
... 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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... 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 decisionmaking 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 decisionmaking (MCDM) is one of the most well known branches of decisionmaking and has been one of the fast growing problem areas during...