Decision Making

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Triaging patients to the ICU: a pilot study of factors influencing admission decisions and patient outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the appropriateness of ICU triage decisions. DESIGN. Prospective descriptive single-center study. SETTING: Ten-bed, medical-surgical ICU in an acute-care 460-bed, tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS: All patients triaged for admission ...
Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Luc Montuclard, Jean-François Timsit, Benoit Misset, Marie Christias, Jean Carlet (Intensive Care Med, 200305)
triaging-patients-icu-pilot-study-factors-influencing-admission.asp

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Antiabortion positions and young womens life plans in contemporary Ireland.

At a critical time when Irelands abortion ban faces legal challenges and the number of women obtaining abortions abroad each year continues to climb, some antiabortion advocates have turned their attention toward the social factors that influence womens ...
Laury Oaks (Soc Sci Med, 200305)
antiabortion-positions-young-women-s-life-plans-contemporary-ireland.asp

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Threats to the estimation of benefit: are preference elicitation methods accurate?

Stated preference methods are used to estimate the value that people place on health care. The data that emerges from these studies is used to guide health policy. However, relatively little is known about how individuals make decisions in a preference ...
Andrew J Lloyd (Health Econ, 200305)
threats-estimation-benefit-preference-elicitation-methods-accurate.asp

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Thinking ahead: factors associated with executing advance directives.

This article examines why older adults do or do not execute advance directives. METHODS. Secondary data analysis was conducted on data from the Charlotte County (Florida) Healthy Aging Study, on 451 adults who were relatively healthy and affluent. ...
Christopher B Rosnick, Sandra L Reynolds (J Aging Health, 200305)
thinking-ahead-factors-associated-executing-advance-directives.asp

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Absolute versus relative values: effects on family practitioners and psychiatrists.

BACKGROUND: Research demonstrates that religious values clearly impact on the judgments made by physicians and their patients. One basic dichotomy--belief in ethical values that do not change (absolute values) versus belief in values that change ...
Joseph K Neumann, Kenneth E Olive (South Med J, 200305)
absolute-versus-relative-values-effects-family-practitioners.asp

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Evaluation of a worksheet to structure teaching and learning outpatient internal medicine.

The Worksheet for Ambulatory Medicine (WAM) is an educational tool designed to enhance teaching and learning outpatient internal medicine. It was developed to identify student learning needs, focus teaching, and structure educational and patient care ...
Craig S Roth, Mark J Fagan, Jayne M Griffith, David Nelson, Yanli Zhao (Med Teach, 200305)
evaluation-worksheet-structure-teaching-learning-outpatient-internal.asp

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Perinatal care at the threshold of viability--from principles to practice.

The threatened birth of an extremely-low-birth-weight (ELBW) and gestational age infant presents complex medical, social and ethical issues for the family and the health professionals. Improved survival may be accompanied by increased risks of chronic ...
L Y Ho (Ann Acad Med Singapore, 200305)
perinatal-care-threshold-viability-principles-practice.asp

198.

Phenotypic and behavioral genetic covariation between elemental cognitive components and scholastic measures.

The study subjected nine elementary cognitive task variables from the Cognitive Assessment Tasks (CAT) and three scholastic measures from the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) to phenotypic and behavioral genetic structural equation modeling based on ...
Dasen Luo, Lee Anne Thompson, Douglas K Detterman (Behav Genet, 200305)
phenotypic-behavioral-genetic-covariation-elemental-cognitive.asp

199.

Information search in the laboratory and on the web: with or without an experimenter.

The focus of this study is the effect of the location (laboratory vs. Web) of experiments on active information search in decision-making tasks. In two experiments, participants were confronted with two different search method versions (list vs. keyword) ...
Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Oswald Huber (Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput, 200305)
information-search-laboratory-web-or-experimenter.asp

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Using genetic programming to discover nonlinear variable interactions.

Psychology has to deal with many interacting variables. The analyses usually used to uncover such relationships have many constraints that limit their utility. We briefly discuss these and describe recent work that uses genetic programming to evolve ...
Chris Westbury, Lori Buchanan, Michael Sanderson, Mijke Rhemtulla, Leah Phillips (Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput, 200305)
genetic-programming-discover-nonlinear-variable-interactions.asp