Decision Making

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Healing and feeling: the clinical ontology of emotion.

In the clinical setting, not enough attention is paid to the role that emotion plays. It is at worst ignored or avoided, isolating those who are suffering, at best treated as something to help another to endure. This is the result, in part, of an ...
Allyson L Robichaud (Bioethics, 200302)
healing-feeling-clinical-ontology-emotion.asp

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Achieving acceptable reliability in oral examinations: an analysis of the Royal College of General Practitioners membership examinations oral component.

BACKGROUND: The membership examination of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) uses structured oral examinations to assess candidates decision making skills and professional values. AIM: To estimate three indices of reliability for these ...
Val Wass, Richard Wakeford, Roger Neighbour, Cees Van der Vleuten, (Med Educ, 200302)
achieving-acceptable-reliability-oral-examinations-analysis-royal.asp

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Semantic priming effect of metaphor constituent terms.

Camac and Glucksberg reported there was no priming effect between constituent terms of a metaphor and argued that there was no prior similarity or association between the constituents. However, their study had several limitations. An important one was ...
Keiko Nakamoto (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
semantic-priming-effect-metaphor-constituent-terms.asp

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Futility without a dichotomy: towards an ideal physician-patient relationship.

The futility debate may be considered as an effort to provide a clear and justified borderline between physician and patient decision-making authority. In this paper we argue that the search for a definition of futility that provides physicians with a ...
Annique Lelie, Marcel Verweij (Bioethics, 200302)
futility-dichotomy-towards-ideal-physician-patient-relationship.asp

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Experiences from active membership and participation in decision-making processes and age in moral reasoning and goal orientation of referees.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of experiences of active membership and participation in decision-making processes and age on moral reasoning and goal orientations of referees in sport. The sample consisted of 148 referees ...
Miltiadis Proios, George Doganis (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
experiences-active-membership-participation-decision-making-processes.asp

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Influence of neighborhood size and exposure duration on visual-word recognition: evidence with the yes/no and the go/no-go lexical decision tasks.

We present two experiments in which we measured lexical decision latencies and errors to words with few or many orthographic neighbors (ie., Colthearts N). The main goal of the study was to examine whether or not the neighborhood size effect in a lexical ...
Manuel Perea, Eva Rosa, Consolación Gómez (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
influence-neighborhood-size-exposure-duration-visual-word-recognition.asp

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Factors affecting nurses decisions to join and maintain membership in professional associations.

Large organized associations are the most effective tools for the nursing profession for influencing policies that protect the members and continues to provide the highest quality nursing care to the public. Although nursing comprises the largest number ...
Kathleen Deleskey (J Perianesth Nurs, 200302)
factors-affecting-nurses-decisions-join-maintain-membership.asp

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Medical residents perceptions of end-of-life care training in a large urban teaching hospital.

BACKGROUND: Contemporary medicine has begun to reemphasize the importance of palliative and end-of-life-care. This shift requires a commensurate change in physician education to provide adequate palliative care training. The present research assessed ...
Charles E Schwartz, Joseph L Goulet, Victoria Gorski, Peter A Selwyn (J Palliat Med, 200302)
medical-residents-perceptions-end-life-care-training-large-urban.asp

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Bias in mental health assessment and intervention: theory and evidence.

A recent surgeon generals report and various studies document racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care, including gaps in access, questionable diagnostic practices, and limited provision of optimum treatments. Bias is a little studied but ...
Lonnie R Snowden (Am J Public Health, 200302)
bias-mental-health-assessment-intervention-theory-evidence.asp

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Moving from information transfer to information exchange in health and health care.

Communication in most health and health care settings assumes that information provision is both necessary and sufficient to improve individual behavior and, subsequently, health. This paper examines and challenges commonly accepted practices of ...
Renée Gravois Lee, Theresa Garvin (Soc Sci Med, 200302)
moving-information-transfer-information-exchange-health-health-care.asp