Decision Making

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Patient advocacy: a concept analysis.

AIM: To clarify the ill-defined concept of patient advocacy and develop a model. METHOD: An eclectic concept analysis was used in the study. RESULTS: Results of the analysis reveal that advocacy has three essential attributes: valuing, apprising and ...
Moyra A Baldwin (Nurs Stand, 2003025-11)
patient-advocacy-concept-analysis.asp

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Rx for compliance. How the new PhRMA code on permissible pharmaceutical marketing practices affects your organization.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of Americas recent code on interactions with health care professionals has a wide effect on medical professionals. A summary of the codes eight primary tenets and their impact on health care providers and ...
Heather M Zimmerman (MGMA Connex, 200302)
rx-compliance-new-phrma-code-permissible-pharmaceutical-marketing.asp

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Circumcision practice patterns in South Korea: community based survey.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence of circumcision in South Korean young men dwelling in the community, investigate attitudes and perspectives about circumcision, and how they perceive physician involvement in the decision process. METHODS: Between May ...
J H Ku, M E Kim, N K Lee, Y H Park (Sex Transm Infect, 200302)
circumcision-practice-patterns-south-korea-community-based-survey.asp

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Medical futility: predicting outcome of intensive care unit patients by nurses and doctors--a prospective comparative study.

OBJECTIVE: First, to assess the pattern of the prediction of intensive care unit patients outcome with regard to survival and quality of life by nurses and doctors and, second, to compare these predictions with the quality of life reported by the ...
Sonia Frick, Dominik E Uehlinger, Regula M Zuercher Zenklusen (Crit Care Med, 200302)
medical-futility-predicting-outcome-intensive-care-unit-patients.asp

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Influences on GPs decision to prescribe new drugs-the importance of who says what.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to understand the range of factors that influence GPs uptake of new drugs METHODS: A total of 107 GPs selected purposively from high, medium and low new drug prescribing practices in two health authorities in the ...
Helen Prosser, Solomon Almond, Tom Walley (Fam Pract, 200302)
influences-gps-decision-prescribe-new-drugs-importance-who-says-what.asp

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Explaining modulation of reasoning by belief.

Although deductive reasoning is a closed system, ones beliefs about the world can influence validity judgements. To understand the associated functional neuroanatomy of this belief-bias we studied 14 volunteers using event-related fMRI, as they performed ...
Vinod Goel, Raymond J Dolan (Cognition, 200302)
explaining-modulation-reasoning-belief.asp

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Preference-consistent evaluation of information in the hidden profile paradigm: beyond group-level explanations for the dominance of shared information in group decisions.

Common explanations for the failure of groups to solve so-called hidden profiles focus on group processes, namely insufficient discussion of unshared information and premature consensus on a suboptimal alternative. As 2 experiments show, even in the ...
Tobias Greitemeyer, Stefan Schulz-Hardt (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200302)
preference-consistent-evaluation-information-hidden-profile-paradigm.asp

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Direct and indirect effects of everyday emotions on food intake of elderly patients in institutions.

BACKGROUND: Decreased food intake is an important risk factor for malnutrition, which is highly prevalent among geriatric patients. The emotional nature of the hospitalization experience and the complex organizational setting involved in meal production ...
Catherine Paquet, Danielle St-Arnaud-McKenzie, Marie-Jeanne Kergoat, Guylaine Ferland, Laurette Dubé (J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 200302)
direct-indirect-effects-everyday-emotions-food-intake-elderly.asp

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Decision making under internal uncertainty: the case of multiple-choice tests with different scoring rules.

This paper assesses framing effects on decision making with internal uncertainty, i.e., partial knowledge, by focusing on examinees behavior in multiple-choice (MC) tests with different scoring rules. In two experiments participants answered a ...
Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Joachim Meyer, David V Budescu (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200302)
decision-making-under-internal-uncertainty-case-multiple-choice-tests.asp

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The conjoined twins and the limits of rationality in applied ethics.

In this article I consider the case of the surgical separation of conjoined twins resulting in the immediate and predictable death of the weaker one. The case was submitted to English law by the hospital, and the operation permitted against the parents ...
Christopher Cowley (Bioethics, 200302)
conjoined-twins-limits-rationality-applied-ethics.asp