CIF Category: Decision-Making

Understand the definition, key components and the rationale of evidence-based practice and the application of informatics.

Develops and assesses evidence-based search strategies and guidelines to support clinical management and decision making.

Demonstrates an understanding of the different types of clinical knowledge and their sources from across the health system and how they can be applied to make clinical and operational decisions.

Promote evidence-based practice, use of guidelines and care pathways across different healthcare settings and contribute (where appropriate) to the development and use of guidelines.

Demonstrates understanding of models for effective knowledge acquisition, storage and dissemination, including strengths and limitations.

Understands how knowledge can be transformed from generation to modelling into a computable form.

Understands the nature of clinical decision making and defines the processes of clinical decision making and diagnostic strategies.

Demonstrates knowledge of the types of clinical decision support tools (e.g., computer interpretable guidelines), including their strengths and weaknesses.

Demonstrates understanding of best practice and approaches (including how information is accessed, sources of information, integration into systems) used to construct and translate clinical pathways and guidelines into decision support tools.

Discusses best practice in the development and application of clinical decision support tools to individuals and/or populations.

Is able to lead discussions about risk assessment and mitigation, and validation of a decision support system.

Knows the core concepts to be able to evaluate impact of implementation on behaviour, workflow and decision-making such that these can be understood and used to inform next iteration or usage.