Decision Making

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Economic evaluation in obstetrics and gynaecology: principles and practice.

Greater attention in health care over the last 2 decades has been placed on determining how best to spend the resources available. Economic evaluation is a commonly used tool to compare health-care services and treatments on the basis of costs and ...
Craig Mitton, John F Jarrell (J Obstet Gynaecol Can, 200303)
economic-evaluation-obstetrics-gynaecology-principles-practice.asp

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A theoretical framework for understanding the effects of simultaneous base-rate and payoff manipulations on decision criterion learning in perceptual categorization.

Observers completed perceptual categorization tasks in which base rates and payoffs were manipulated separately or simultaneously across a range of category discriminabilities. Decision criterion estimates from the simultaneous base-rate/payoff ...
W Todd Maddox, Corey J Bohil (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200303)
theoretical-framework-understanding-effects-simultaneous-base-rate.asp

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Nuclear waste transportation: case studies of identifying stakeholder risk information needs.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for the cleanup of our nations nuclear legacy, involving complex decisions about how and where to dispose of nuclear waste and how to transport it to its ultimate disposal site. It is widely recognized ...
Christina H Drew, Deirdre A Grace, Susan M Silbernagel, Erin S Hemmings, Alan Smith, William C Griffith, Timothy K Takaro, Elaine M Faustman (Environ Health Perspect, 200303)
nuclear-waste-transportation-case-studies-identifying-stakeholder.asp

304.

Economics of antibiotic administration.

This article examines several elements of antibiotic administration that make it worthy of policy analysis, including microbial resistance, contagion, competing brand and generic drugs, and formulary restrictions by insurers and hospitals. These topics ...
Ben D Sommers (Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am, 200303)
economics-antibiotic-administration.asp

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Ethical problems in clinical practice.

Ethics is about judgment, which is rarely black and white. This paper highlights some of the ethical dilemmas that face practising clinicians in their everyday life and restates how useful the General Medical Council guidance is to make appropriate ...
T Downes, K S Channer (Postgrad Med J, 200303)
ethical-problems-clinical-practice.asp

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Are patients decision-making preferences being met?

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the information and decision-making expectations of general practice patients during real life consultations. DESIGN: Post-consultation, quantitative patient preference and enablement questionnaire. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: ...
Sarah Ford, Theo Schofield, Tony Hope (Health Expect, 200303)
patients-decision-making-preferences-met.asp

307.

NATN endorsement and accreditation. A nurses perspective.

In May 2002, NATN launched a new service known as the Endorsement and Accreditation Service. This article explains the differences between the two parts of the service, what the service entails and how it enables purchasers to influence suppliers to ...
Scott McCallum (Br J Perioper Nurs, 200303)
natn-endorsement-accreditation-nurse-s-perspective.asp

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On the generality of optimal versus objective classifier feedback effects on decision criterion learning in perceptual categorization.

Biased category payoff matrices engender separate reward- and accuracy-maximizing decision criteria Although instructed to maximize reward, observers use suboptimal decision criteria that place greater emphasis on accuracy than is optimal. In this study, ...
Corey J Bohil, W Todd Maddox (Mem Cognit, 200303)
generality-optimal-versus-objective-classifier-feedback-effects.asp

309.

Syllogistic reasoning time: disconfirmation disconfirmed.

Models of deductive reasoning typically assume that reasoners dedicate more logical analysis to unbelievable conclusions than to believable ones (e.g., Evans, Newstead, Allen, & Pollard, 1994; Newstead, Pollard, Evans, & Allen, 1992). When the conclusion ...
Valerie A Thompson, Christopher L Striemer, Rhett Reikoff, Raymond W Gunter, Jamie I D Campbell (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
syllogistic-reasoning-time-disconfirmation-disconfirmed.asp

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Judging confidence influences decision processing in comparative judgments.

Current theories of confidence in human judgment assume that confidence and the decision it is based on are inextricably tied to the same process (decisional locus theories) or that confidence processing begins only once the primary decision has been ...
William M Petrusic, Joseph V Baranski (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
judging-confidence-influences-decision-processing-comparative.asp