Citation

Falzer PR, Garman MD. J. Eval. Clin. Pract. 2009; 15(6): 1142-1151.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01315.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Rationale, aims and objectives  Efforts to describe how individual treatment decisions are informed by systematic knowledge have been hindered by a standard that gauges the quality of clinical decisions by their adherence to guidelines and evidence-based practices. This paper tests a new contextual standard that gauges the incorporation of knowledge into practice and develops a model of evidence-based decision making. Previous work found that the forecasted outcome of a treatment guideline exerts a highly significant influence on how it is used in making decisions. This study proposed that forecasted outcomes affect the recognition of a treatment scenario, and this recognition triggers distinct contextual decision strategies.