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Causal Inference: Foundations for Health Care Managerial Decision-Making

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Evidence-Based Health Care Management

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The scientific basis for managerial decisions is the use of evidence generated from explicit, experiential, and confirmed knowledge. This is a systematic thought process, beginning with the collection of observable facts and then moving to the analysis of these facts to arrive at an adequate explanation of the phenomenon under study. Ideally, scientific data should be gathered under a theoretically informed framework, so that evidence can be derived from the application of data warehousing and data mining techniques. Such evidence-based knowledge can be integrated with practical and experiential knowledge to shed light on the cause-and-effect relationships between the problems and solution sets in the field of health care management.

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Wan, T.T.H. (2002). Causal Inference: Foundations for Health Care Managerial Decision-Making. In: Evidence-Based Health Care Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0795-6_2

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