Decision Making

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Masked ball: ethics, laws and financial contradictions in Hungarian health care.

Corruption is a major problem in the societies of the post-communist Central European countries. Corruption in health care has some unique characteristics undermining the efficacy of and respect for Hungarian health care. One of the forms of corruption ...
Imre Szebik (Sci Eng Ethics, 200301)
masked-ball-ethics-laws-financial-contradictions-hungarian-health-care.asp

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The physiological basis of clinical deficits in Parkinsons disease.

Despite the fact that Parkinsons disease (PD) is a relatively common neurological condition, the physiological derangements that result in its clinical features remain unclear. On combining findings from psychophysical, clinical and electrophysiological ...
J H McAuley (Prog Neurobiol, 200301)
physiological-basis-clinical-deficits-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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An evidence-based national quality measurement and reporting system.

BACKGROUND: Evidence-based medicine and evidence-based guidelines are widely supported among physicians and other health professionals, although practice may still fall far short of the ideas contained in the concept. Insufficient attention has been ...
Elizabeth A McGlynn (Med Care, 200301)
evidence-based-national-quality-measurement-reporting-system.asp

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The use of advance directives in a population of Asian Indian Hindus.

Advance directives are a way to communicate the kind of care that people desire at the end of life. Recent research shows that ethnic minorities have been found to complete advance directives significantly less often than Caucasians, and no information ...
Ardith Z Doorenbos, Mary A Nies (J Transcult Nurs, 200301)
advance-directives-population-asian-indian-hindus.asp

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A game theoretic model of the relationship between prices and waiting times.

ISSUE: The role of prices charged to patients as a policy instrument for altering waiting times. METHOD: A game theoretic model is used to examine the determinants of waiting times. RESULTS: Under certain circumstances an increase in the price charged to ...
Michael G Farnworth (J Health Econ, 200301)
game-theoretic-model-relationship-prices-waiting-times.asp

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Living renal donors: optimizing the imaging strategy--decision- and cost-effectiveness analysis.

PURPOSE: To determine the most cost-effective strategy for preoperative imaging performed in potential living renal donors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a decision-analytic model, the societal cost-effectiveness of digital subtraction angiography (DSA), ...
Ylian S Liem, Marc C J M Kock, Jan N M Ijzermans, Willem Weimar, Karen Visser, M G Myriam Hunink (Radiology, 200301)
living-renal-donors-optimizing-imaging-strategy-decision-cost.asp

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Cognitive forcing strategies in clinical decisionmaking.

Cognitive errors underlie most diagnostic errors that are made in the course of clinical decisionmaking in the emergency department. These errors are universal and are prevalent in the special milieu of the ED. Their properties appear to be distinct from ...
Pat Croskerry (Ann Emerg Med, 200301)
cognitive-forcing-strategies-clinical-decisionmaking.asp

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Referrals from home care to emergency hospital care: basis for decisions.

The Swedish government implemented a reform, the Adel reform, in the care of older citizens in 1992, so that the communities where older people live became responsible for their care and housing. Nurses were appointed to make sure that older people were ...
Annica Larsson Kihlgren, Ingegerd Fagerberg, Kirsti Skovdahl, Mona Kihlgren (J Clin Nurs, 200301)
referrals-home-care-emergency-hospital-care-basis-decisions.asp

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Breastfeeding among low income, African-American women: power, beliefs and decision making.

Breastfeeding rates among African-American women lag behind all other ethnic groups. National data show that only 45% of African-American women reported ever breastfeeding compared to 66 and 68% of Hispanic and white women, respectively. Of ...
Margaret E Bentley, Deborah L Dee, Joan L Jensen (J Nutr, 200301)
breastfeeding-low-income-african-american-women-power-beliefs.asp

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The psychology of doing nothing: forms of decision avoidance result from reason and emotion.

Several independent lines of research bear on the question of why individuals avoid decisions by postponing them, failing to act, or accepting the status quo. This review relates findings across several different disciplines and uncovers 4 decision ...
Christopher J Anderson (Psychol Bull, 200301)
psychology-doing-nothing-forms-decision-avoidance-result-reason.asp