Decision Making

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Health professionals views on standards for decision-making capacity regarding refusal of medical treatment in mild Alzheimers disease.

This study was designed to determine which elements professionals consider important for evaluation of decision-making capacity. Survey with a vignette case report of an individual with mild dementia was mailed to four groups of individuals: 1. members ...
Ladislav Volicer, Linda Ganzini (J Am Geriatr Soc, 200309)
health-professionals-views-standards-decision-making-capacity-refusal.asp

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Parental involvement laws and fertility behavior.

This paper considers the impact of the introduction of laws requiring parental involvement in a minors decision to abort a pregnancy. State-level data over the 1985-1996 period are used to examine abortion, birth, and pregnancy outcomes, while microdata ...
Phillip B Levine (J Health Econ, 200309)
parental-involvement-laws-fertility-behavior.asp

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Access to intensive care unit beds for neurosurgery patients: a qualitative case study.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe the process used to decide which patients are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital with special focus on access for neurosurgery patients, and evaluate it using "accountability for ...
D K Martin, P A Singer, M Bernstein (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200309)
access-intensive-care-unit-beds-neurosurgery-patients-qualitative.asp

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The effect of comorbidities on treatment decisions.

Medical decision analyses typically focus on one disease, that is, on one source of risk. In many medical decisions multiple sources of risk co-exist, however. This paper analyzes the effect of such comorbidities on treatment decisions. The effect of ...
Han Bleichrodt, David Crainich, Louis Eeckhoudt (J Health Econ, 200309)
effect-comorbidities-treatment-decisions.asp

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End-of-life decision making--have we got it right?

There are wide-spread misconceptions about palliative care. Various treatments used in palliative care have a potential to shorten, and at times even prolong life. However, such treatments are used with a view to enhance quality of life and/or death. ...
S Shah, M Lloyd-Williams (Eur J Cancer Care (Engl), 200309)
end-life-decision-making-got-right.asp

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The impact of home enteral tube feeding in everyday life: a qualitative study.

Advances in clinical and technical areas, combined with developments in community support services, have enabled people to receive enteral tube feeding at home in the UK. Research has focused on clinical and technical aspects, and peoples experiences ...
Anita J Liley, Jill Manthorpe (Health Soc Care Community, 200309)
impact-home-enteral-tube-feeding-everyday-life-qualitative-study.asp

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Effects of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: Cochrane systematic review.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of different types of individualised risk communication for patients who are deciding whether to participate in screening. DESIGN: Systematic review. DATA SOURCES: Specialist register of the Cochrane consumers and ...
Adrian Edwards, Silvana Unigwe, Glyn Elwyn, Kerenza Hood (BMJ, 200309)
effects-communicating-individual-risks-screening-programmes-cochrane.asp

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Confidentiality of employee health records: ethical and legal dilemmas for occupational health nurses.

Health professionals must be familiar with regulations and statutes addressing privacy and confidentiality issues. The occupational health nurse must also be aware of specific limitations and exceptions to confidentiality. Occupational health nurses must ...
Janice McHugh (AAOHN J, 200309)
confidentiality-employee-health-records-ethical-legal-dilemmas.asp

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Practical clinical trials: increasing the value of clinical research for decision making in clinical and health policy.

Decision makers in health care are increasingly interested in using high-quality scientific evidence to support clinical and health policy choices; however, the quality of available scientific evidence is often found to be inadequate. Reliable evidence ...
Sean R Tunis, Daniel B Stryer, Carolyn M Clancy (JAMA, 200309)
practical-clinical-trials-increasing-value-clinical-research-decision.asp

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The nexus of evidence, context, and patient preferences in primary care: postal survey of Canadian family physicians.

BACKGROUND: Evidence-based medicine is gaining prominence in primary care. This study sought to examine the relationships among family physicians attitudes toward EBM, contextual factors, and clinical decision-making and to investigate the factors that ...
C Shawn Tracy, Guilherme Coelho Dantas, Rahim Moineddin, Ross E G Upshur (BMC Fam Pract, 200309)
nexus-evidence-context-patient-preferences-primary-care-postal-survey.asp