Decision Making

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The power of children over adults when obtaining sweet snacks.

BACKGROUND: There is evidence to suggest that the family is becoming a more democratic unit and that children are spending more on sweet snack items than ever before. A study was thus undertaken to investigate the influence of children on parental ...
B P Roberts, A S Blinkhorn, J T Duxbury (Int J Paediatr Dent, 200303)
power-children-over-adults-obtaining-sweet-snacks.asp

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Evaluation of the parameters underlying the decision by adult patients to opt for lingual therapy: an international comparison.

BACKGROUND: The present study is the first instance of patients having been questioned on the criteria applied in their decision for therapy with lingual brackets and on the sources of information available to them within the framework of an ...
Ariane Hohoff, Dirk Wiechmann, Didier Fillion, Thomas Stamm, Carsten Lippold, Ulrike Ehmer (J Orofac Orthop, 200303)
evaluation-parameters-underlying-decision-adult-patients-opt-lingual.asp

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Utility analysis for clinical decision-making in small treatment settings.

Data-driven clinical decision-making can be difficult in settings that service relatively few patients because of the small samples available, the patients potential dissimilarity from participants in published research, and highly limited resources. ...
Ty A Ridenour, James H Treloar, Raymond S Dean (Int J Neurosci, 200303)
utility-analysis-clinical-decision-making-small-treatment-settings.asp

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Understanding our mistakes: a primer on errors in clinical reasoning.

Clinical reasoning allows physicians to move from areas of clinical uncertainty to points where the medical literature offers guidance, and is equally important in deducing whether the results of clinical trials are applicable to an individual patient. ...
Robert R Kempainen, Mary B Migeon, Fredric M Wolf (Med Teach, 200303)
understanding-mistakes-primer-errors-clinical-reasoning.asp

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Eliciting reasons: empirical methods in priority setting.

In this paper I review empirical methods applied in recent analysis of decision-making on priorities in health care. I outline a number of discrete methods and discuss their applicability and efficacy in the field of bioethics. Three key methodological ...
Andreas Hasman (Health Care Anal, 200303)
eliciting-reasons-empirical-methods-priority-setting.asp

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Older adults encode--but do not always use--perceptual details: intentional versus unintentional effects of detail on memory judgments.

Investigations of memory deficits in older individuals have concentrated on their increased likelihood of forgetting events or details of events that were actually encountered (errors of omission). However, mounting evidence demonstrates that normal ...
Wilma Koutstaal (Psychol Sci, 200303)
older-adults-encode-not-perceptual-details-intentional-versus.asp

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Terrorism preparedness training for nonclinical hospital workers: empowering them to take action.

While aspects of the national response to the last years terrorist attacks have included preparedness training for health care institutions, much of the focus has been on clinician recognition of biologic exposures. However, many hospital workers have ...
Craig D Thorne, Barbara Curbow, Marc Oliver, Mohamed al-Ibrahim, Melissa McDiarmid (J Occup Environ Med, 200303)
terrorism-preparedness-training-nonclinical-hospital-workers.asp

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Seasonal bed closures in an intensive care unit: a qualitative study.

OBJECTIVE: To describe perceptions of the administrative procedures for seasonal bed closures and their consequences in the intensive care unit (ICU), and to critique this example of health care priority setting for legitimacy and fairness. DESIGN: A ...
Graeme M Rocker, Deborah J Cook, Douglas K Martin, Peter A Singer (J Crit Care, 200303)
seasonal-bed-closures-intensive-care-unit-qualitative-study.asp

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Intensive care nurses and physicians experiences with demands for treatment: some implications for clinical practice.

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to develop an empiric description of intensive care unit (ICU) physicians and nurses (participants) experiences providing life-sustaining treatments at the insistence of family members, treatments that they believed ...
Stephen Workman, Patricia McKeever, William Harvey, Peter A Singer (J Crit Care, 200303)
intensive-care-nurses-physicians-experiences-demands-treatment.asp

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Decision making in humans: the effect of manipulating the central noradrenergic system.

OBJECTIVES: Damasio has proposed an influential model of human decision making-the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH), where he argues that somatic feedback to the brain influences decision making in humans. It is proposed that when choosing between options ...
R E OCarroll, B P Papps (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200303)
decision-making-humans-effect-manipulating-central-noradrenergic.asp