Decision Making

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Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services: bias, preferences, or poor communication?

African Americans and Latinos use services that require a doctors order at lower rates than do whites. Racial bias and patient preferences contribute to disparities, but their effects appear small. Communication during the medical interaction plays a ...
Carol M Ashton, Paul Haidet, Debora A Paterniti, Tracie C Collins, Howard S Gordon, Kimberly OMalley, Laura A Petersen, Barbara F Sharf, Maria E Suarez-Almazor, Nelda P Wray, Richard L Street (J Gen Intern Med, 200302)
racial-ethnic-disparities-health-services-bias-preferences-or-poor.asp

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Does a doctor have a duty to provide information and advice about complementary and alternative medicine?

It is argued that a doctor has a duty to provide information about reasonably available complementary and alternative medicine treatments where that information would be material to the particular patient or the hypothetical prudent patient. Given the ...
Elizabeth Brophy (J Law Med, 200302)
doctor-duty-provide-information-advice-complementary-alternative.asp

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General practitioners perspectives regarding competence and confidentiality in an adolescent with suspected anorexia nervosa: legal and ethical considerations.

In Victoria, Australia, the legal position regarding young peoples competence to make medical treatment decisions has not been clarified in legislation, and a number of often vague common law decisions must be relied on for guidance. This situation ...
Terence P Bartholomew, Susan J Paxton (J Law Med, 200302)
general-practitioners-perspectives-competence-confidentiality.asp

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The effect of health plan characteristics on Medicare+ Choice enrollment.

OBJECTIVE: To provide national estimates of the effect of out-of-pocket premiums and benefits on Medicare beneficiaries choice among managed care health plans. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: The data represent the population of all Medicare+ Choice (M+C) ...
Bryan E Dowd, Roger Feldman, Robert Coulam (Health Serv Res, 200302)
effect-health-plan-characteristics-medicare+-choice-enrollment.asp

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Common sense and common consent in communicable disease surveillance.

The need to protect the public against the spread of communicable (infectious) disease provides a good example of the need for a commonsense approach to the use of confidential data. Laboratories need to notify different professionals in order to trace ...
L Turnberg (J Med Ethics, 200302)
common-sense-common-consent-communicable-disease-surveillance.asp

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Factors influencing referral for specialist endodontic treatment amongst a group of Dutch general practitioners.

AIM: To analyse the need for endodontic referral amongst a group of Dutch general practitioners and to examine the current referral patterns and factors influencing the decision to refer. METHODOLOGY: A questionnaire was designed to investigate the ...
M H Ree, M F Timmerman, P R Wesselink (Int Endod J, 200302)
factors-influencing-referral-specialist-endodontic-treatment-amongst.asp

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What are the ingredients for a successful evidence-based patient choice consultation?: A qualitative study.

The evidence-based patient choice (EBPC) approach is one of a number of newly emerging templates for medical encounters that advocate evidence-informed choice and shared decision-making. These models emphasise respect for patient preferences for ...
Sarah Ford, Theo Schofield, Tony Hope (Soc Sci Med, 200302)
ingredients-successful-evidence-based-patient-choice-consultation-.asp

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Here comes the judge: the influence of judge personal characteristics on federal sexual harassment case outcomes.

This study explored the effects of judges personal characteristics (gender, race, age, and political affiliation) and case characteristics on the outcomes of federal cases of hostile environment sexual harassment. Results revealed that even after ...
Carol T Kulik, Elissa L Perry, Molly B Pepper (Law Hum Behav, 200302)
comes-judge-influence-judge-personal-characteristics-federal-sexual.asp

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Local peoples knowledge, aptitude and perceptions of planning and management issues in nanda devi biosphere reserve, India.

Local peoples knowledge, aptitude, and perceptions of planning and management issues were investigated in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (NDBR) in Uttaranchal State of India. Conflicts ensued between local inhabitants and the management authority due to ...
Kottapalli S Rao, Sunil Nautiyal, Rakesh K Maikhuri, Krishna G Saxena (Environ Manage, 200302)
local-peoples-knowledge-aptitude-perceptions-planning-management.asp

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Sexual harassment stories: testing a story-mediated model of juror decision-making in civil litigation.

The story model of juror decision-making proposes that jurors use personal experience and information presented at trial to create stories that guide their verdicts. This model has received strong empirical support in studies using criminal cases. The ...
Jill E Huntley, Mark Costanzo (Law Hum Behav, 200302)
sexual-harassment-stories-testing-story-mediated-model-juror-decision.asp