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Using decision trees to aid decision-making in nursing.
Dawn Dowding,Carl Thompson +1 more
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Decision analysis can be a useful technique for nurses to assist them with decision-making in practice, according to an approach to analysing clinical problems known as decision analysis.Abstract:
This article discusses judgement and decision-making in nursing. It outlines an approach to analysing clinical problems known as decision analysis. It suggests decision analysis can be a useful technique for nurses to assist them with decision-making in practice.read more
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Intuition and Analysis in Decision Making and Choice
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TL;DR: The need for a shift in focus from intuitive to more analytic ways of examining both the process and outcomes of professional decisions based on "best evidence" is discussed.
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The research-practice gap and the role of decision analysis in closing it.
TL;DR: It is argued that all reports of research should include a decision analytic representation of the findings and that a common framework that is located at a level of analysis between their typical modes and makes explicit provision for the consideration of values is needed.
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Outcomes of 4 methods of debridement using a decision analysis methodology.
TL;DR: The study patient was most likely to have a clean wound bed after 2 and 4 weeks of treatment, less likely to need to switch debridement methods, and of equal or less likelihood of experiencing and infection and subsequent hospitalization when her wound was debrided with collagenase.