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Decision Support Framework

This decision support framework was developed for practitioners and patients considering health care decisions that:
  1. are stimulated by a new circumstance, diagnosis, or developmental transition;
  2. require careful deliberation because of the uncertain and/or value-sensitive nature of the benefits and risks; and
  3. need relatively more effort during the deliberation phase than the implementation phase
Description of the Ottawa Decision Support Framework 1996

Ottawa Decision Support Framework Figure & Definitions of Determinants of Decisions
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