Decision Making

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A model for the future conduct of pharmacovigilance.

A scientific model to support excellence in pharmacovigilance has been developed from first principles by brainstorming sessions and discussions with experts in the field. The model represents a long-term vision of how pharmacovigilance could be ...
Patrick C Waller, Stephen J W Evans (Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf, 200301-02)
model-future-conduct-pharmacovigilance.asp

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Magnet hospital staff nurses describe clinical autonomy.

BACKGROUND: Considerable and longstanding confusion abounds as to what is meant by the concept "autonomy." The 2 dimensions of autonomy-rooted in the clinical act and the autonomy of the discipline or profession-are used interchangeably and measured with ...
Marlene Kramer, Claudia E Schmalenberg (Nurs Outlook, 200301-02)
magnet-hospital-staff-nurses-describe-clinical-autonomy.asp

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Womens efficiency in decision making and their perception of their status in the family.

This study is descriptive in nature. Three hundred ten women who applied to the Maternal-Child Health and Family Planning Center in Erzurum, Turkey, between June 1 and August 30, 2001 were included in this study. Data were collected through the inquiry ...
Behice Erci (Public Health Nurs, 200301-02)
women-s-efficiency-decision-making-perception-status-family.asp

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The impact of hands-free message reception/response on driving task performance.

A series of closed-course driving experiments were conducted in which 41 drivers ranging in age from 19 to 70 were put through a series of increasingly challenging driving performance tasks both in the presence and absence of audible messages. The ...
Peter J Cooper, Yvonne Zheng, Christian Richard, John Vavrik, Brad Heinrichs, Gunter Siegmund (Accid Anal Prev, 200301)
impact-hands-free-message-reception-response-driving-task-performance.asp

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Australian nurse supervisors styles and their perceptions of ethical dilemmas within health care.

AIM: To examine clinical nurse supervisors styles, in terms of models, organization, focus on supervision and theories used in supervision, as well as their perceptions of ethical dilemmas within health care. BACKGROUND: The importance of clinical ...
Ingrid Bégat, Ingela Berggren, Bodil Ellefsen, Elisabeth Severinsson (J Nurs Manag, 200301)
australian-nurse-supervisors-styles-perceptions-ethical-dilemmas.asp

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Negotiation skills for physicians.

As stakeholders vie for increasingly limited resources in health care, physicians would be well advised to hone their skills of negotiation. Negotiation is defined as a strategy to resolve a divergence of interests, be they real or perceived, where ...
Dimitri J Anastakis (Am J Surg, 200301)
negotiation-skills-physicians.asp

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Putting the public back into public health. Part II. How can public health be accountable to the public?

The practice of public health involves the application of evidence to improving population health, and should be accountable to the public. Accountability to the public can be considered either at the individual doctor-patient interface or through ...
R F Heller, T D Heller, S Pattison (Public Health, 200301)
putting-public-back-public-health-part-ii-public-health-accountable.asp

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Naïve and experienced judgments of stimulus-response compatibility: implications for interface design.

Many design guidelines encourage maintaining stimulus-response compatibility whenever possible. Payne found that naïve judgments for different stimulus-response (S-R) mappings were not very accurate, and suggested that designers may not be able to ...
Kim-Phuong L Vu, Robert W Proctor (Ergonomics, 200301)
naïve-experienced-judgments-stimulus-response-compatibility.asp

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The intelligence of the moral intuitions: comment on Haidt (2001).

The social intuitionist model (J. Haidt, 2001) posits that fast and automatic intuitions are the primary source of moral judgments. Conscious deliberations play little causal role; they are used mostly to construct post hoc justifications for judgments ...
David A Pizarro, Paul Bloom (Psychol Rev, 200301)
intelligence-moral-intuitions-comment-haidt.asp

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A before-and-after study of driver stopping propensity at red light camera intersections.

This paper reports a before-and-after study which evaluated the impacts of installing and operating red light cameras at two "T" and one "X" signalized intersections on driver stopping propensity upon the onset of amber. Rather than using video cameras, ...
K M Lum, Y D Wong (Accid Anal Prev, 200301)
after-study-driver-stopping-propensity-red-light-camera-intersections.asp