An approach of practicing medicine with the goal to improve and evaluate patient care. It requires the judicious integration of best research evidence with the patient's values to make decisions about medical care. This method is to help physicians make proper diagnosis, devise best testing plan, choose best treatment and methods of disease prevention, as well as develop guidelines for large groups of patients with the same disease. (from JAMA 296 (9), 2006)
A theoretical technique utilizing a group of related constructs to describe or prescribe how individuals or groups of people choose a course of action when faced with several alternatives and a variable amount of knowledge about the determinants of the outcomes of those alternatives
A group of techniques developed to apply scientific methods and tools to solve the problems of DECISION MAKING in complex organizations and systems. Operations research searches for optimal solutions in situations of conflicting GOALS and makes use of mathematical models from which solutions for actual problems may be derived. (From Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th ed)
Instructions issued by a physician pertaining to the institution, continuation, or withdrawal of life support measures. The concept includes policies, laws, statutes, decisions, guidelines, and discussions that may affect the issuance of such orders
Decking materials -- England -- Catalogs. : Profiled steel cladding and decking for commercial and industrial buildings / [prepared by BSC Strip Mill Products, with the help of members of the Steel Cladding Association and members of the Metal Roof Deck Association]
Deckmar, Fred : My Son Fred Living with Autism : How Could You Manage? I Couldn't. I Did It Anyway
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Deckmar, Fred -- Mental health : My son Fred--living with autism : how could you manage? I couldn't, I did it anyway / Maud Deckmar ; translated by Ewa Wulkan