Decision Making

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Critical thinking in respiratory care practice: a qualitative research study.

INTRODUCTION: Recent publications indicate that critical thinking should be an integral part of respiratory care education. However, we know very little about critical thinking in the context of respiratory care. The critical thinking abilities and ...
Shelley C Mishoe (Respir Care, 200305)
critical-thinking-respiratory-care-practice-qualitative-research-study.asp

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Polygamy, disrupted reproduction, and the state: Malian migrants in Paris, France.

For Malian women, migration from West Africa to France has disrupted widely shared understandings of marriage and reproduction. In response to restrictive immigration policies, men and women routinely confront the challenges of polygamy, public ...
Carolyn Sargent, Dennis Cordell (Soc Sci Med, 200305)
polygamy-disrupted-reproduction-state-malian-migrants-paris-france.asp

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Adoption of biomass improved cookstoves in a patriarchal society: an example from Sudan.

The economic, social, ecological and environmental roles and benefits of forests are obvious and need no emphasis. Inefficient use of fuel wood is considered one of the important causes of deforestation. Use of more efficient improved cookstoves is ...
Siddig El Tayeb Muneer, El Waseilah Mukhtar Mohamed (Sci Total Environ, 200305)
adoption-biomass-improved-cookstoves-patriarchal-society-example-sudan.asp

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Do-not-resuscitate order after 25 years.

BACKGROUND: In 1976, the first hospital policies on orders not to resuscitate were published in the medical literature. Since that time, the concept has continued to evolve and evoke much debate. Indeed, few initials in medicine today evoke as much ...
Jeffrey P Burns, Jeffrey Edwards, Judith Johnson, Ned H Cassem, Robert D Truog (Crit Care Med, 200305)
not-resuscitate-order-after-years.asp

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A comparison of the reliability of the take-it-or-leave-it and the bidding game approaches to estimating willingness-to-pay in a rural population in West Africa.

The test-retest reliability of the bidding game and the take-it-or-leave-it (TIOLI) approaches to eliciting willingness-to-pay (WTP) are compared. A random sample of households in the Nouna area of Burkina Faso were interviewed twice with an interval of ...
Hengjin Dong, Bocar Kouyate, John Cairns, Rainer Sauerborn (Soc Sci Med, 200305)
comparison-reliability-take-or-leave-bidding-game-approaches.asp

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Self-disclosure in psychoanalytic-existential therapy.

This article is an effort to integrate contemporary psychoanalytic and existential perspectives on intentional therapist self-disclosure. It offers a two-stage decision-making model that considers self-disclosure from the vantage points of style and ...
Jesse D Geller (J Clin Psychol, 200305)
self-disclosure-psychoanalytic-existential-therapy.asp

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Moral hazard and adverse selection in Australian private hospitals: 1989-1990.

The Australian hospital system is characterized by the co-existence of private hospitals, where individuals pay for services and public hospitals, where services are free to all but delivered after a waiting time. The decision to purchase insurance for ...
Elizabeth Savage, Donald J Wright (J Health Econ, 200305)
moral-hazard-adverse-selection-australian-private-hospitals.asp

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Rethinking the focusing effect in decision-making.

According to Legrenzi et al. [Cognition 49 (1993) 37], in making a choice people consider only the alternatives explicitly represented in their mental model of the decision situation. Their idea has found empirical support in the "focusing effect": ...
Paolo Cherubini, Ketti Mazzocco, Rino Rumiati (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200305)
rethinking-focusing-effect-decision-making.asp

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Reducing bias in frequency judgment by improving source monitoring.

A common finding in judgment and decision making is that peoples frequency judgments often fail to map onto objective frequencies. The present research examined the possibility that one source of bias in frequency judgment is attributable to peoples ...
Michael R P Dougherty, Ana M Franco-Watkins (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200305)
reducing-bias-frequency-judgment-improving-source-monitoring.asp

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Detectability of the negative event: effect on the acceptance of pre- or post-event risk-defusing actions.

In risky decision situations, many decision makers search for risk-defusing operators (RDOs). An RDO is an action intended by the decision maker to be performed additionally to a specific alternative and is expected to decrease the risk. Pre-event RDOs ...
Oswald Huber, Odilo W Huber (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200305)
detectability-negative-event-effect-acceptance-pre-or-post-event-risk.asp