Decision Making

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Decision making under conflict: decision time as a measure of conflict strength.

Conflict and choice are closely related in that choice produces conflict and conflict is resolved by making a choice. Although conflict was invoked in psychological approaches to decision making early on (Lewin, 1931/1964), no generally accepted measure ...
Adele Diederich (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
decision-making-under-conflict-decision-time-measure-conflict-strength.asp

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MDFT account of decision making under time pressure.

In this paper, decision making under time pressure for multiattribute choice alternatives in a risky environment is investigated. A model, multiattribute decision field theory (MDFT), is introduced that describes both the dynamic and the stochastic ...
Adele Diederich (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
mdft-account-decision-making-under-time-pressure.asp

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The effect of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on recognition memory decision processes and discrimination in postmenopausal women.

In this article, the theoretical distinction between recognition memory decision and discrimination processes is used to explore the effect of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in postmenopausal women. DHEA is an adrenal steroid that diminishes with aging. ...
Elliot Hirshman, Ellen Wells, Margaret E Wierman, Benjamin Anderson, Andrew Butler, Meredith Senholzi, Julia Fisher (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
effect-dehydroepiandrosterone-dhea-recognition-memory-decision.asp

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Cost to the patient or cost to the healthcare system? Which one matters the most for GP prescribing decisions? A UK-Italy comparison.

BACKGROUND: Charges for health services help contain healthcare costs. Despite showing that medicine consumption decreases when charges are increased there is little research that illuminates how doctors manage the charge system to help patients who ...
Karen Hassell, Vincenzo Atella, Ellen I Schafheutle, Marjorie C Weiss, Peter R Noyce (Eur J Public Health, 200303)
cost-patient-or-cost-healthcare-system-one-matters-gp-prescribing.asp

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Generating political will for safe motherhood in Indonesia.

In 1987 an international conference brought global attention to an issue that previously had been ignored: the worlds alarmingly high number of maternal deaths in childbirth. The conference ended with a declaration calling for a reduction in maternal ...
Jeremy Shiffman (Soc Sci Med, 200303)
generating-political-will-safe-motherhood-indonesia.asp

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Quality of care and the demand for health services in Bamako, Mali: the specific roles of structural, process, and outcome components.

The public finance and foreign exchange crisis of the 1980s aggravated the unfavourable economic trends in many developing countries and resulted in budget cuts in the health sector. Policymakers, following the suggestions of World Bank experts, ...
Mamadou Mariko (Soc Sci Med, 200303)
quality-care-demand-health-services-bamako-mali-specific-roles.asp

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Dentists and patients communicative behaviour and their satisfaction with the dental encounter.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the relations between patients and dentists communicative behaviour and their satisfaction with the dental encounter. PARTICIPANT: The sample consisted of 90 patients receiving emergency care from 13 ...
B C Schouten, M A J Eijkman, J Hoogstraten (Community Dent Health, 200303)
dentists-patients-communicative-behaviour-satisfaction-dental.asp

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Older people as health service consumers 3: obstacles to access in the village.

Faster access to hospital services, swift advice and treatment in GP surgeries and quicker access to information at home are among the improvements brought about as a result of recent Government policies in England. These developments have increased the ...
Jenny Bentley (Br J Community Nurs, 200303)
older-people-health-service-consumers-obstacles-access-village.asp

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Impulsive decision making and working memory.

Decision making that favors short-term over long-term consequences of action, defined as impulsive or temporally myopic, may be related to individual differences in the executive functions of working memory (WM). In the first 2 experiments, participants ...
John M Hinson, Tina L Jameson, Paul Whitney (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200303)
impulsive-decision-making-working-memory.asp

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Preferences and person trade-offs: forcing consistency or inconsistency in health-related quality of life measures?

We consider assumptions about preferences implicit in the person trade-off exercises used to derive health-related quality of life measures for the Global and US Burden of Disease Projects. Because these methods and their results have the potential of ...
Edward C Mansley, Elamin H Elbasha (Health Econ, 200303)
preferences-person-trade-offs-forcing-consistency-or-inconsistency.asp