Decision Making

1.

The value of the managed entry of new drugs: a case study of donepezil.

OBJECTIVE: A United Kingdom Department of Health directive (EL[94]72) asked Health Authorities to manage the entry of new drugs into practice. There seem to be costs associated with the decision-making process of managed entry, but no clear evidence of ...
Katherine Payne, Linda M Davies, Peter R Noyce, Marjorie C Weiss (Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 2003WINTER)
value-managed-entry-new-drugs-case-study-donepezil.asp

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Student understanding of the relationship between the health professions and the pharmaceutical industry.

BACKGROUND: Pharmaceutical sales representatives and direct-to-consumer advertising may influence physician practices, particularly prescribing. Identifying the relevant knowledge and attitudes students possess about the pharmaceutical industry may help ...
Michael S Monaghan, Kimberly A Galt, Paul D Turner, Bruce L Houghton, Eugene C Rich, Ronald J Markert, Brenda Bergman-Evans (Teach Learn Med, 2003WINTER)
student-understanding-relationship-health-professions-pharmaceutical.asp

3.

Characteristics, perceptions, and other factors influencing physical therapist assistant program directors in 2001.

Little is known about program directors in physical therapist assistant (PTA) programs. This study describes the characteristics of program directors in PTA programs, such as time spent on responsibilities, influences on decision making, perceptions of ...
Catherine G Page (J Allied Health, 2003SUMMER)
characteristics-perceptions-other-factors-influencing-physical.asp

4.

How physicians react to cost-effectiveness information.

Since 1998, the growth of health care spending has accelerated to levels not seen since the 1980s. This growth has renewed pressures on physicians to practice "cost-effective" care, since physicians decisions account for the vast majority of all health ...
David A Asch (LDI Issue Brief, 2003SUMMER)
physicians-react-cost-effectiveness-information.asp

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Current factors affecting the choice of psychiatry as a specialty: an Italian study.

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the differential impact of factors hypothesized to affect the choice of psychiatry as a specialty in Italy. METHOD: A 38-item Likert-type questionnaire about factors that potentially affect the choice of a career in ...
Gian Maria Galeazzi, Cesare Secchi, Paolo Curci (Acad Psychiatry, 2003SUMMER)
current-factors-affecting-choice-psychiatry-specialty-italian-study.asp

6.

Self-esteem and cosmetic surgery: is there a relationship between the two?

This article addresses the correlation between a patients self-esteem and the demand for and use of cosmetic surgery. The greater purpose of this article is to broaden nurses understanding of the profound influence of self-esteem as it relates to ...
Cynthia Figueroa (Plast Surg Nurs, 2003SPRING)
self-esteem-cosmetic-surgery-relationship-two.asp

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Specialty choices of Kuwaiti medical graduates during the last three decades.

INTRODUCTION: This study examined postgraduate specialty training of Kuwaiti medical graduates during 1968 to 1999 and identified their attained professional qualifications to reveal scarcity in some specialties. METHOD: A survey was carried out ...
Khaled F al-Jarallah, Mohamed A A Moussa (J Contin Educ Health Prof, 2003SPRING)
specialty-choices-kuwaiti-medical-graduates-last-three-decades.asp

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Predicting career decisions in primary care medicine: a theoretical analysis.

Entering the 1960s, more than half of the medical doctors in the United States were family physicians, pediatricians, or general internists. Today, about one-third of all U.S. physicians are primary care practitioners. Although opinions vary on the ...
Sonya R Lawson, J Dennis Hoban (J Contin Educ Health Prof, 2003SPRING)
predicting-career-decisions-primary-care-medicine-theoretical-analysis.asp

9.

Examining the perspectives of family members involved in the delivery of palliative care at home.

This ethnographic study examined the social context of home-based palliative caregiving. Data were composed of observation field notes, interviews, and textual documents, and were analyzed using constant comparative methods. Findings show that home-based ...
Kelli I Stajduhar (J Palliat Care, 2003SPRING)
examining-perspectives-family-members-involved-delivery-palliative.asp

10.

The conjunction effect: new evidence for robustness.

Five studies investigated the conjunction effect (or conjunction fallacy), in which participants report that the conjunction of two events is more rather than less likely than one of the events alone. There was no evidence that feedback or monetary ...
Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino, Edmund Fantino, Daniel J Zizzo, Julie Wen (Am J Psychol, 2003SPRING)
conjunction-effect-new-evidence-robustness.asp