Decision Making

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Promoting a good death for persons with dementia in nursing facilities: family caregivers perspectives.

The experience of dying from Alzheimers disease (AD) in a nursing home setting is a poorly understood phenomenon. Fifty-seven family member caregivers of persons with Alzheimers disease, who had died as a resident in a national nursing home chain, ...
Marcia Sue DeWolf Bosek, Elinar Lowry, David A Lindeman, J Russell Burck, Lisa P Gwyther (JONAS Healthc Law Ethics Regul, 200306)
promoting-good-death-persons-dementia-nursing-facilities-family.asp

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Attitudes toward psychiatry among students entering medical school.

OBJECTIVE: To survey the attitudes of Australian medical students to determine their views about the relative attractiveness of psychiatry as a career compared with other specialties, and against findings from a North American study. METHOD: We surveyed ...
G S Malhi, G B Parker, K Parker, V J Carr, K C Kirkby, P Yellowlees, P Boyce, B Tonge (Acta Psychiatr Scand, 200306)
attitudes-toward-psychiatry-students-entering-medical-school.asp

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Shared decision making in psychiatry.

OBJECTIVE: In other medical fields, shared decision making (a strategy for including patients in therapeutic decision processes) has been studied for several years now. This survey presents the potential of shared decision making for psychiatry. METHOD: ...
J Hamann, S Leucht, W Kissling (Acta Psychiatr Scand, 200306)
shared-decision-making-psychiatry.asp

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Chest radiograph interpretation by medical students.

AIM: To assess the ability of final year medical students to interpret conventional chest radiographs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ten conventional chest radiographs were selected from a teaching hospital radiology department library that were good ...
D R Jeffrey, P R Goddard, M P Callaway, R Greenwood (Clin Radiol, 200306)
chest-radiograph-interpretation-medical-students.asp

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Making sense of clinical reasoning: judgement and the evidence of the senses.

BACKGROUND: Close noticing, as keen discrimination and judgement between qualities, is a key capability for work in visual domains in medicine. This generic capability is normally assumed, and its specifics are left to develop through experience, as ...
Alan Bleakley, Richard Farrow, David Gould, Robert Marshall (Med Educ, 200306)
making-sense-clinical-reasoning-judgement-evidence-senses.asp

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The identification of knowledge content and function in manual labour.

Calls for an alternative conceptualization of cognition for applied concerns retain the core commitment of the basic research community to abstract cognition detached from a physical environment. The present paper attempts to break out of the dominant, ...
Valerie Shalin, Charles Verdile (Ergonomics, 200306)
identification-knowledge-content-function-manual-labour.asp

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Incorporating the views of obstetric clinicians in implementing evidence-supported labour and delivery suite ward rounds: a case study.

OBJECTIVES: To implement evidence-supported delivery suite ward rounds using strategies to overcome barriers. DESIGN: Qualitative case study to identify barriers and a quantitative assessment of outcomes on ward rounds. METHOD: After an introduction to ...
Neelima Deshpande, Mary Publicover, Harry Gee, Khalid S Khan (Health Info Libr J, 200306)
incorporating-views-obstetric-clinicians-implementing-evidence.asp

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The effect of decision aids on the agreement between womens and physicians decisional conflict about hormone replacement therapy.

The aim of this secondary analysis was to compare the effects of a tailored decision aid (DA) with those of a pamphlet on the agreement between womens and physicians decisional conflict about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A total of 40 physicians ...
France Légaré, Annette M OConnor, Ian D Graham, Georges A Wells, Mary Jane Jacobsen, Tom Elmslie, Elizabeth R Drake (Patient Educ Couns, 200306)
effect-decision-aids-agreement-women-s-physicians-decisional-conflict.asp

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A quantitative method for accounting human opinion, preferences and perceptions in ecosystem management.

Ecosystem management (EM) is a holistic approach, in which public participation in decision-making, and incorporation of human preferences, needs and perceptions in management plans is a main element. The decision-making from human opinion method ...
Georgios E Pavlikakis, Vassilios A Tsihrintzis (J Environ Manage, 200306)
quantitative-method-accounting-human-opinion-preferences-perceptions.asp

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Leaving high school: the influence and consequences for psychological well-being and career-related confidence.

This paper examines the well-being and career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) of adolescents before and after leaving school, and tests for the changes in these variables as a result of leaving school. While at high school, 309 students were ...
Peter A Creed, Juanita Muller, Wendy Patton (J Adolesc, 200306)
leaving-high-school-influence-consequences-psychological-well-career.asp