Decision Making

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News media reporting on civil litigation and its influence on civil justice decision making.

The news media have the potential to act as a powerful influence on the civil litigation system, influencing decision making in particular cases and on the system more generally as media reports influence the decision making of various participants in ...
Jennifer K Robbennolt, Christina A Studebaker (Law Hum Behav, 200302)
news-media-reporting-civil-litigation-influence-civil-justice.asp

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Shifting priorities at the Department of Energys bomb factories: protecting human and ecological health.

More than 50 years of research, development, manufacture, and testing of nuclear weapons at Department of Energy (DOE) sites has left a legacy of on-site contamination that often spreads to surrounding areas. Despite substantial cleanup budgets in the ...
Joanna Burger, Thomas M Leschine, Michael Greenberg, James R Karr, Michael Gochfeld, Charles W Powers (Environ Manage, 200302)
shifting-priorities-department-energy-s-bomb-factories-protecting.asp

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The attitudes of carers and old age psychiatrists towards the treatment of potentially fatal events in end-stage dementia.

BACKGROUND: Deciding how to treat patients with end-stage dementia developing potentially fatal events has long been contentious. Under expected new legislation the role of carers is likely to increase. Old age psychiatrists frequently have to decide ...
R H Coetzee, S J Leask, R G Jones (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200302)
attitudes-carers-old-age-psychiatrists-towards-treatment-potentially.asp

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Organizational downsizing and age discrimination litigation: the influence of personnel practices and statistical evidence on litigation outcomes.

The present study examined relationships between reduction-in-force (RIF) personnel practices, presentation of statistical evidence, and litigation outcomes. Policy capturing methods were utilized to analyze the components of 115 federal district court ...
Peter H Wingate, George C Thornton, Kelly S McIntyre, Jennifer H Frame (Law Hum Behav, 200302)
organizational-downsizing-age-discrimination-litigation-influence.asp

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MDs: [missing doctors?].

Hospitals in places as varied as West Virginia, Missouri, Arizona and southern California say recruiting and keeping physicians are big problems, and getting bigger. But the evidence and the experts differ over whether a nationwide physician shortage on ...
Terese Hudson Thrall (Hosp Health Netw, 200302)
mds-missing-doctors.asp

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Avoiding inappropriate clinical decisions based on false-positive human chorionic gonadotropin test results.

Clinically significant false-positive human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) test results are rare. However, some individuals have circulating factors in their serum (eg, heterophilic antibodies or nonactive forms of hCG) that interact with the hCG antibody ...
(Int J Gynaecol Obstet, 200302)
avoiding-inappropriate-clinical-decisions-based-false-positive-human.asp

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A qualitative study to explore influences on general practitioners decisions to prescribe new drugs.

BACKGROUND: Ensuring appropriate prescribing is an important challenge for the health service, and the need for research that takes account of the reasons behind individual general practitioners (GPs) prescribing decisions has been highlighted. AIM: To ...
Ann Jacoby, Monica Smith, Martin Eccles (Br J Gen Pract, 200302)
qualitative-study-explore-influences-general-practitioners-decisions.asp

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Autonomy, privacy and informed consent 2: postnatal perspective.

The nursing and healthcare ethics literature over the past 10 years has focused on issues of patient autonomy and patient rights. Despite the growing volume of literature exploring such topics, there is little empirical work investigating what is ...
P A Scott, A Taylor, M Välimäki, H Leino-Kilpi, T Dassen, M Gasull, C Lemonidou, M Arndt (Br J Nurs, 20030123-0212)
autonomy-privacy-informed-consent-postnatal-perspective.asp

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Attitudes toward genetic testing: gender, role, and discipline.

As a result of the Human Genome Project, genetic testing could result in the availability of detailed genetic information (presence of disease, genetic risk or predisposition to disease, and characteristics or traits) that can ultimately be used for ...
Laurinda B Harman (Top Health Inf Manage, 200301-03)
attitudes-toward-genetic-testing-gender-role-discipline.asp

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Understanding attitudes toward clinical research.

General attitudes toward clinical research can have substantial effects on the research process. Recent studies, including the study by Apolone and Mosconi in this issue, suggest that certain attitudes toward research and evaluations of the risks and ...
Kevin A Schulman (J Ambul Care Manage, 200301-03)
understanding-attitudes-toward-clinical-research.asp