Decision Making

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Training experiences of current and former community pharmacy residents, 1986-2000.

OBJECTIVE: To identify why current and former community pharmacy residents chose a community pharmacy residency program (CPRP), what factors in the program were emphasized and not emphasized, what opportunities were available to them postresidency, and, ...
Whitney L Unterwagner, Mario M Zeolla, Anne L Burns (J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash), 200303-04)
training-experiences-current-former-community-pharmacy-residents.asp

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Managed care and clinical decision-making in child and adolescent behavioral health: provider perceptions.

This study investigated how managed care affects clinical decision-making in a behavioral health care system. Providers serving children and adolescents under both managed and unmanaged care (n = 28) were interviewed about their awareness of differences ...
Philip T Yanos, Christine I Garcia, Stephen Hansell, Mark G Rosato, Shula Minsky (Adm Policy Ment Health, 200303)
managed-care-clinical-decision-making-child-adolescent-behavioral.asp

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Flutter discrimination: neural codes, perception, memory and decision making.

Recent studies combining psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments in behaving monkeys have provided new insights into how several cortical areas integrate efforts to solve a vibrotactile discrimination task. In particular, these studies have ...
Ranulfo Romo, Emilio Salinas (Nat Rev Neurosci, 200303)
flutter-discrimination-neural-codes-perception-memory-decision-making.asp

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Putting the quality into quality-adjusted life years.

Over recent decades, a great deal of effort has been devoted towards developing instruments that can be used to elicit health state values. All of these instruments are conceptually very different from one another and all suffer from serious inherent ...
Adam Oliver (J Public Health Med, 200303)
putting-quality-quality-adjusted-life-years.asp

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Prenatal care use among women of low income: a matter of "taking care of self".

The grounded theory study discussed in this article provides a theoretical explanation of prenatal care use among women of low income. The author recruited 26 women from two communities in Ontario, Canada, to participate in an individual or focus group ...
Wendy Sword (Qual Health Res, 200303)
prenatal-care-women-low-income-matter-taking-care-self.asp

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Clinical decision making among fourth-year nursing students: an interpretive study.

This study investigated how fourth-year nursing students learned clinical decision making. Seventeen fourth-year nursing students between ages 21 and 37, who were completing their last semester of a baccalaureate nursing program, were interviewed. A ...
Ann H White (J Nurs Educ, 200303)
clinical-decision-making-fourth-year-nursing-students-interpretive.asp

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Meta-analysis and decision analysis bridge research and practice.

Research synthesis methods provide meaningful quantitative data through systematic review of the research literature and translation of these findings into practice implications. Meta-analysis has been the gold standard for translation of research ...
Jacqueline Fowler Byers, Elizabeth Stullenbarger (West J Nurs Res, 200303)
meta-analysis-decision-analysis-bridge-research-practice.asp

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A standardized open-ended questionnaire as a substitute for a personal interview in dental admissions.

This paper discusses the need for reliable and valid measures of personality and motivational factors in the prediction of success and attrition in a dental school. The admissions system currently used in most schools includes personality factors that ...
Naomi Gafni, Avital Moshinsky, Jaime Kapitulnik (J Dent Educ, 200303)
standardized-open-ended-questionnaire-substitute-personal-interview.asp

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When protocols are not enough. Intuitive decision making by novice nurse practitioners.

The pressing need for health care reform in this century has contributed to an increasing interest in educating health care providers who can deliver cost-effective, high-quality care. Demand for primary care nurse practitioners has risen significantly, ...
Margaret M Kosowski, Vanice W Roberts (J Holist Nurs, 200303)
protocols-not-intuitive-decision-making-novice-nurse-practitioners.asp

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Decision-bound theory and the influence of familiarity.

In this article, we derive a nonparametric prediction from decision-bound theory (DBT). The crucial aspect that is tested is whether or not familiarity of a stimulus affects response time in categorization. We show that, for our design, DBT, extended ...
Tom Verguts, Gert Storms, Francis Tuerlinckx (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
decision-bound-theory-influence-familiarity.asp