Making decisions is part of life, from simple everyday choices to complex judgements that might affect someone’s life. Sometimes decisions are fast and intuitive, and sometimes they need to be well reasoned, analytical, evidence-based – especially when it comes to patient care.
During a patient’s health care journey, many clinical decisions need to be made to ensure appropriate treatment. A balance of experience, awareness, knowledge, and information must be gathered, and appropriate assessment tools must be used. For complex decisions, where the level of uncertainty is high – an analytical and evidence-based approach is needed that provides valuable diagnostic information to support the final outcome.