title: Program evaluation: resource for decision making.
abstract: Formal program evaluation is an important resource for health care decision making. It is necessary in situations where traditional organizational evaluative capabilities an no longer meet the requirements of the job at hand.
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006801:Humans; D008330:Management Audit; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009934:Organization and Administration; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D013597:Systems Analysis