Decision Making

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Integrated care in schizophrenia: a 2-year randomized controlled study of two community-based treatment programs.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of two community-based programs that combined antipsychotic medication, family interventions and social skills training. METHOD: A randomized controlled trial with 2 years follow-up. The study included 84 patients with ...
U Malm, B Ivarsson, P Allebeck, I R H Falloon (Acta Psychiatr Scand, 200306)
integrated-care-schizophrenia-year-randomized-controlled-study-two.asp

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The ethics of end-of-life decisions in the elderly: deliberations from the ECOPE study.

Is age a factor underlying clinical decision-making? Should age be a criterion in the allocation of health care resources? Is it correct to criticize this approach as ageism? What role does paternalism play? These questions are the focus of this chapter ...
Stella Reiter-Theil (Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol, 200306)
ethics-end-life-decisions-elderly-deliberations-ecope-study.asp

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Making decisions for structural genomics.

A large number of structural genomics programmes have been established worldwide with the common aim of large-scale, high-throughput protein structure determination. Due to the considerable challenges posed by the experimental methods of structural ...
Ana Rodrigues, Roderick E Hubbard (Brief Bioinform, 200306)
making-decisions-structural-genomics.asp

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Hispanic womens experience with "el cambio de vida".

PURPOSE: To examine the factors that influence Hispanic womens decisions to initiate or not initiate hormone replacement therapy (HRT) during menopause to manage symptoms or to prevent longer-term conditions. DATA SOURCES: A descriptive study of 51 ...
Judith C Longworth (J Am Acad Nurse Pract, 200306)
hispanic-women-s-experience-el-cambio-de-vida.asp

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One organ donation, three perspectives: experiences of donors, recipients, and third parties with living kidney donation.

Although living kidney donors experiences with donation have been studied, questions of potential bias in retrospective donor reports remain. This study examined the experience of living kidney donation from 3 perspectives: those of the donor, the ...
Thomas E Burroughs, Amy D Waterman, Barry A Hong (Prog Transplant, 200306)
one-organ-donation-three-perspectives-experiences-donors-recipients.asp

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Ethical aspects of living donor kidney transplantation and recipient adherence to treatment.

Living donor kidney transplantation comprises approximately 30% of kidney transplantations in the United States and is an effective form of renal replacement therapy, with low risk to the donor. Twenty percent of living donors do not have a genetic ...
Linda Wright, A S Daar (Prog Transplant, 200306)
ethical-aspects-living-donor-kidney-transplantation-recipient.asp

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Principles of forensic mental health assessment: implications for the forensic assessment of sexual offenders.

Risk assessment with sexual offenders is generally performed for two purposes: to assist the court in deciding on a relevant legal question (in a legal context), or to plan treatment interventions (in a clinical context). Failure to make this ...
Kirk Heilbrun (Ann N Y Acad Sci, 200306)
principles-forensic-mental-health-assessment-implications-forensic.asp

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Three basic principles of success.

Basic business principles all but ensure success when they are followed consistently. Putting strategies, objectives and tactics in place is the first step toward being able to document systems, initiate scripting and improve staff training. Without the ...
Roger Levin (J Am Dent Assoc, 200306)
three-basic-principles-success.asp

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Siting MSW landfills on Lesvos island with a GIS-based methodology.

The siting of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills in Greece is a difficult process due to land resource limitations, the countrys mountainous, insular and primarily water permeable terrain as well as an exacerbated public opposition (NIMBY syndrome). A ...
Themistoklis D Kontos, Dimitrios P Komilis, Constantinos R Halvadakis (Waste Manag Res, 200306)
siting-msw-landfills-lesvos-island-gis-based-methodology.asp

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Referring children to a Special Dental Care Centre in the Netherlands: parents experiences and expectations.

AIM: The aim of the present study was to assess the relation between treatment at the family dentist versus referral and different aspects of treatment at a Special Dental Care Centre (SDCC), including the choice to return to their family dentist or not. ...
M A Klaassen, J S J Veerkamp, I H A Aartman (Eur J Paediatr Dent, 200306)
referring-children-special-dental-care-centre-netherlands-parents.asp