Decision Making

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Conceptions of moral, social-conventional, and personal events among Chinese preschoolers in Hong Kong.

Sixty-one Chinese preschoolers from Hong Kong at 2 ages (Ms = 4.36 and 6.00 years) were interviewed about familiar moral, social-conventional, and personal events. Children treated personal events as distinct from moral obligations and conventional ...
Jenny Yau, Judith G Smetana (Child Dev, 200305-06)
conceptions-moral-social-conventional-personal-events-chinese.asp

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Parenteral hydration and nutrition in the geriatric patient: clinical and ethical issues.

A common ethical and legal issue in elder care involves the decision to withhold or withdraw parenteral hydration and nutrition (PHN) at the end of life and in the terminal stage of dementia. The aging of the population will impact the frequency with ...
Lorraine C Mion, Anne OConnell (J Infus Nurs, 200305-06)
parenteral-hydration-nutrition-geriatric-patient-clinical-ethical.asp

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Anaesthetists Non-Technical Skills (ANTS): evaluation of a behavioural marker system.

BACKGROUND: Non-technical skills are critical for good anaesthetic practice but are not addressed explicitly in normal training. Realization of the need to train and assess these skills is growing, but these activities must be based on properly developed ...
G Fletcher, R Flin, P McGeorge, R Glavin, N Maran, R Patey (Br J Anaesth, 200305)
anaesthetists-non-technical-skills-ants-evaluation-behavioural.asp

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Grade disputes: considerations for nursing faculty.

Nursing faculty take grading of assignments seriously. Faculty realize students are sensitive about their grade point averages and that students must maintain certain grades for progression and the retention of scholarships. Faculty further recognize ...
Paula Boley, Karen Whitney (J Nurs Educ, 200305)
grade-disputes-considerations-nursing-faculty.asp

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Manufactured but not imported: new directions for research in shared decision making support and skills.

Significant conceptual work on shared decision making has taken place but there are still significant challenges in achieving it in routine clinical practice. This paper outlines what research has identified to date that may promote shared decision ...
Adrian Edwards, Rhodri Evans, Glyn Elwyn (Patient Educ Couns, 200305)
manufactured-not-imported-new-directions-research-shared-decision.asp

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Error monitoring using external feedback: specific roles of the habenular complex, the reward system, and the cingulate motor area revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The dopaminergic system has been shown to be involved in the processing of rewarding stimuli, specifically of errors in reward prediction, in animal studies as well as in recent neuroimaging studies in humans. Furthermore, a specific role of dopamine in ...
Markus Ullsperger, D Yves von Cramon (J Neurosci, 200305)
error-monitoring-external-feedback-specific-roles-habenular-complex.asp

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Naturalistic decision making: a model to overcome methodological challenges in the study of critical care nurses decision making about patients hemodynamic status.

The quality of critical care nurses decision making about patients hemodynamic status in the immediate period after cardiac surgery is important for the patients well-being and, at times, survival. The way nurses respond to hemodynamic cues varies ...
Judy Currey, Mari Botti (Am J Crit Care, 200305)
naturalistic-decision-making-model-overcome-methodological-challenges.asp

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Creativity and inductive reasoning: the relationship between divergent thinking and performance on Wasons 246 task.

This study was an investigation of the relationship between potential creativityas measured by fluency scores on the Alternate Uses Testand performance on Wasons 246 task. As hypothesized, participants who were successful in discovering the rule had ...
Oshin Vartanian, Colin Martindale, Jonna Kwiatkowski (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200305)
creativity-inductive-reasoning-relationship-divergent-thinking.asp

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Why patients choose regional anesthesia for orthopedic and trauma surgery.

BACKGROUND: While both surgeons and anesthesiologists preference of regional over general anesthesia is increasing, the patients preference remains limited. Little is known about why patients choose regional anesthesia. The aim of our study was to answer ...
Linda E Pelinka, Hartmut Pelinka, Martin Leixnering, Walter Mauritz (Arch Orthop Trauma Surg, 200305)
why-patients-choose-regional-anesthesia-orthopedic-trauma-surgery.asp

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Client involvement in simulation model building: hints and insights from a case study in a London hospital.

This paper describes the collaborative process of building a simulation model in order to understand patient waiting times in an accident and emergency department. The purpose is to explore the issues that arise when involving clients, in this case ...
David C Lane, Camilla Monefeldt, Elke Husemann (Health Care Manag Sci, 200305)
client-involvement-simulation-model-building-hints-insights-case.asp