Evidence-based Decision-Making Task

An Evidence-based Decision-Making Task is a decision-making task that requires evidence-based justifications.

• AKA: Evidence-based Inferencing.
• Context:
  • It can (often) be performed in an Evidence-based Practice, such as evidence-based medicine.
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• Example(s):
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Heuristic Decision-Making.
• See: Best-Practices, Data Science.

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References

2000

• (Jadad et al., 2000) ⇒ Alejandro R. Jadad, R. Brian Haynes, Dereck Hunt, and George P. Browman. (2000). “The Internet and Evidence-based Decision-making: A Needed Synergy for Efficient Knowledge Management in Health Care." Canadian Medical Association Journal 162, no. 3

1999

• (Mitchell, 1999) ⇒ Tom M. Mitchell. (1999). “Machine Learning and Data Mining." Communications of the ACM 42, no. 11
  • QUOTE: … organizations and an attendant increase in efforts to capture, warehouse, and utilize historical data to support evidence-based decision making. …

1996

• (Sackett et al., 1996) ⇒ David L. Sackett, William M. Rosenberg, J. A. Gray, R. Brian Haynes, and W. Scott Richardson. (1996). “Evidence based Medicine: What It is and What It Isn't." BMJ: British Medical Journal 312, no. 7023

1997

• (Muir, 1997) ⇒ JA Gray Muir. (1997). “Evidence-based Health Care." Evidence-based healthcare 1, no. 1

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