Chapter 4 - How decision support tools help define clinical problems

Chapter 4 - How decision support tools help define clinical problems

1. 
   Financial status of the patient
   
2. 
   Social status of the patient
   
3. 
   Presenting problems
   
4. 
   Unresolved problems from childhood
   
5. 
   Continuing problems
   
6. 
   Sexual problems
   
7. 
   Health promotion
   
8. 
   Problems with dependents/ spouses
   
9. 
   Health seeking behaviour modification
   
10. 
    Offering alternates to traditional Health seeking behaviour
    

1. 
   Very ineffective
   
2. 
   Ineffective
   
3. 
   No effect upon effectiveness
   
4. 
   Effective
   
5. 
   Very effective
   

1. 
   Far less important than qualitative research
   
2. 
   Less important than qualitative research
   
3. 
   Equal importance to qualitative research
   
4. 
   More important than qualitative research
   
5. 
   Far more important than qualitative research
   

1. 
   Case studies
   
2. 
   A few Randomised controlled Trials (RCTs)
   
3. 
   Expert opinion
   
4. 
   High quality meta-analyses of RCTs
   
5. 
   Patient support group recommendations
   
6. 
   A mixture of qualitative and quantitative research
   

1. 
   The study of human metabolic responses to environmental changes.
   
2. 
   The study of metabolic responses to drugs, and diseases.
   
3. 
   The study of metabolic responses to drugs, environmental changes and diseases.
   
4. 
   The study of human metabolic responses to aging.
   
5. 
   The study of human metabolic responses to drugs, environmental changes and diseases.
   

1. 
   Unique patient identification system
   
2. 
   Patient identification system
   
3. 
   Chip and pinning of all UK citizens
   
4. 
   Radical change to the way the NHS runs
   
5. 
   Unique patient billing system