Temporal category	Category description	Example of statement conveying a decision
A	Preformed	Decisions that have already been made and are brought into the encounter by the physician as information.	‘We have started you on some anticoagulants’.
B	Here-and-now	Decisions made in the present	‘I will get an ultrasound of your leg tonight’.
C	Conditional	Decisions prescribing future actions given a certain course of events	‘If the pills don’t alleviate your pain, you may double the dosage’.