Patient Variables Influence Outpatient Clinical Decision Making and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Issakidis ◽  
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G. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Patient Variables

scholarly journals Clinical Decision Making About Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Using the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Van Meter ◽  
Eric Youngstrom ◽  
Jennifer Kogos Youngstrom ◽  
Thomas Ollendick ◽  
Christine Demeter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Anxiety

Evidence-based Guidelines for Anxiety Disorders: Can They Improve Clinical Outcomes?

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (S12) ◽  
pp. 34-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Guidelines ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Mental Health Programs ◽  
Evidence Based Guidelines

AbstractEvidence-based medicine (EBM) enables clinicians to justify decision making, enhances the quality of medical practice, identifies unanswered research questions, and ensures the efficient practice of medicine. Implementation of evidence-based mental health programs requires education, time, and improved effort by administration, regulatory, and clinical professionals. Essential to these efforts are consistent incentives for change, effective training materials, and clear clinical guidelines. Guidelines exist within the framework of EBM. Good guidelines are simple, specific, and user friendly, focus on key clinical decisions, are based on research evidence, and present evidence and recommendations in a concise and accessible format. Potential limitations of guidelines to improve clinical outcomes in anxiety disorders are the widespread distribution of anxiety symptoms in primary care, health inequalities across patient groups, persistent misconceptions regarding psychotropic drugs, and low confidence in using simple psychological treatments. Clinical guidelines generally specify therapeutic areas covered and not covered, but often there is no mention of cost or cost effectiveness of treatment. Guidelines can inform clinical decision making, but administrators of drug formularies may regard themselves as being primarily responsible for limiting costs and access to certain medications, even if these decisions are at odds with guideline recommendations.

Debates in Dysphagia Management: How Do You Use Evidence-Based Practice in Your Dysphagia Patient Care?

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Jeri A. Logemann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clinical Method ◽  
Do So

Evidence-based practice requires astute clinicians to blend our best clinical judgment with the best available external evidence and the patient's own values and expectations. Sometimes, we value one more than another during clinical decision-making, though it is never wise to do so, and sometimes other factors that we are unaware of produce unanticipated clinical outcomes. Sometimes, we feel very strongly about one clinical method or another, and hopefully that belief is founded in evidence. Some beliefs, however, are not founded in evidence. The sound use of evidence is the best way to navigate the debates within our field of practice.

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