Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform?
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Clinical practice guidelines and Risk Assessment Models (RAMs) are some useful tools to bring medical evidences into our daily clinical practice. Despite the improvement over the time, they still have some shortcomings.</p> <...
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| author | Moosavi-Toomatari Babak Rahimi-Rad Mohammad Pakdel Firouz Sepehrvand Nariman Bazargan-Hejazi Shahrzad |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Clinical practice guidelines and Risk Assessment Models (RAMs) are some useful tools to bring medical evidences into our daily clinical practice. Despite the improvement over the time, they still have some shortcomings.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>One of these shortcomings is the arbitrary cutoffs used in these tools to facilitate the decision making process. This problem is to some extent due to the "Black or White" approach of modern medicine in making the decisions, whilst in the real world and our daily practice we used mostly an uncertain approach, which is called recently as "Fuzzy" thinking approach.</p> <p>Summary</p> <p>The authors of this article believe that the fuzzy type of thinking may resolve the above mentioned shortcomings of clinical practice guideline or risk assessment models and they tried to discuss about this using an example about Venous Thromboembolism related guidelines and RAMs.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eeabffc48b0944a7bddbfc358505e68e2022-12-22T02:11:47ZengBMCBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making1472-69472011-10-011116310.1186/1472-6947-11-63Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform?Moosavi-Toomatari BabakRahimi-Rad MohammadPakdel FirouzSepehrvand NarimanBazargan-Hejazi Shahrzad<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Clinical practice guidelines and Risk Assessment Models (RAMs) are some useful tools to bring medical evidences into our daily clinical practice. Despite the improvement over the time, they still have some shortcomings.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>One of these shortcomings is the arbitrary cutoffs used in these tools to facilitate the decision making process. This problem is to some extent due to the "Black or White" approach of modern medicine in making the decisions, whilst in the real world and our daily practice we used mostly an uncertain approach, which is called recently as "Fuzzy" thinking approach.</p> <p>Summary</p> <p>The authors of this article believe that the fuzzy type of thinking may resolve the above mentioned shortcomings of clinical practice guideline or risk assessment models and they tried to discuss about this using an example about Venous Thromboembolism related guidelines and RAMs.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/11/63Practice guidelinesRisk assessment modelsFuzzy LogicVenous Thromboembolism |
| spellingShingle | Moosavi-Toomatari Babak Rahimi-Rad Mohammad Pakdel Firouz Sepehrvand Nariman Bazargan-Hejazi Shahrzad Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform? BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making Practice guidelines Risk assessment models Fuzzy Logic Venous Thromboembolism |
| title | Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform? |
| title_full | Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform? |
| title_fullStr | Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform? |
| title_short | Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform? |
| title_sort | practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models is it time to reform |
| topic | Practice guidelines Risk assessment models Fuzzy Logic Venous Thromboembolism |
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