Non-clinical influences on clinical decision-making: a major challenge to evidence-based practice

Hajjaj, F. M., Salek, Mir-saeed, Basra, M. K. A. and Finlay, Andrew Yule ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-1646 2010. Non-clinical influences on clinical decision-making: a major challenge to evidence-based practice. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 103 (5) , pp. 178-187. 10.1258/jrsm.2010.100104

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Abstract

This article reviews an aspect of daily clinical practice which is of critical importance in virtually every clinical consultation, but which is seldom formally considered. Non-clinical influences on clinical decision-making profoundly affect medical decisions. These influences include patient-related factors such as socioeconomic status, quality of life and patient's expectations and wishes, physician-related factors such as personal characteristics and interaction with their professional community, and features of clinical practice such as private versus public practice as well as local management policies. This review brings together the different strands of knowledge concerning non-clinical influences on clinical decision-making. This aspect of decision-making may be the biggest obstacle to the reality of practising evidence-based medicine. It needs to be understood in order to develop clinical strategies that will facilitate the practice of evidence-based medicine

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Pharmacy
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Royal Society of Medicine
ISSN:	0141-0768
Last Modified:	14 Dec 2022 03:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32823

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