{"id":193,"date":"2017-07-26T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=193"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:53:18","slug":"introduction-to-evidence-based-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/chapter\/introduction-to-evidence-based-decision-making\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Evidence-Based Decision Making","rendered":"Introduction to Evidence-Based Decision Making"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: explain evidence-based decision making and its tools<\/h2>\r\nWe have seen how the rational decision-making process is valuable but also can be improved by useful modifications. We are ready now to learn about another emphasis that might provide improvement on the strictly rational model. In one sense, however, an emphasis on \u201cevidence-based\u201d decision making is only an extension and refinement of rational principles. As its name suggests, this approach relies on actual evidence of effectiveness in evaluating alternative approaches to a decision.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: explain evidence-based decision making and its tools<\/h2>\n<p>We have seen how the rational decision-making process is valuable but also can be improved by useful modifications. We are ready now to learn about another emphasis that might provide improvement on the strictly rational model. In one sense, however, an emphasis on \u201cevidence-based\u201d decision making is only an extension and refinement of rational principles. As its name suggests, this approach relies on actual evidence of effectiveness in evaluating alternative approaches to a decision.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-193\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Evidenced-Based Decision Making . <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Aaron Spencer and Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":21046,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Evidenced-Based Decision Making \",\"author\":\"Aaron Spencer and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"4ea0b82f-a811-4329-aff4-c57e45e2decf","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-193","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/193\/revisions\/1431"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/47"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/193\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}