Decision Making

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Transitioning to arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: the pros and cons.

There has been much recent enthusiasm regarding complete arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, and it is becoming apparent that, for many, this newer technique may be a preferable alternative to the more traditional mini-open rotator cuff repair. Several ...
Ken Yamaguchi, William N Levine, Guido Marra, Leesa M Galatz, Steven Klepps, Evan L Flatow (Instr Course Lect, 2003)
transitioning-arthroscopic-rotator-cuff-repair-pros-cons.asp

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Health impact assessment of agriculture and food policies: lessons learnt from the Republic of Slovenia.

The most important public health priority in agricultural policy-making is currently food safety, despite the relatively higher importance of food security, nutrition, and other agricultural-related health issues in terms of global burden of disease. ...
Karen Lock, Mojca Gabrijelcic-Blenkus, Marco Martuzzi, Peter Otorepec, Paul Wallace, Carlos Dora, Aileen Robertson, Jozica Maucec Zakotnic (Bull World Health Organ, 2003)
health-impact-assessment-agriculture-food-policies-lessons-learnt.asp

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Individual unionization decisions: a multilevel model of cost-benefit influences.

An important part of the unionization process is predicting the individuals vote for or against union representation. We proposed and tested a multilevel model based on the relative importance of costs and benefits of representation. Regression ...
Steven Mellor, R James Holzworth, James M Conway (Exp Psychol, 2003)
individual-unionization-decisions-multilevel-model-cost-benefit.asp

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Quality of life and end-of-life decisionmaking.

Since 1976, when the New Jersey Supreme Court decided the Karen Ann Quinlan case (In re Quinlan, 355 A.2d 647 (NJ), 1976 cert. denied, 429 US 922, 1976), it has been apparent that the concept of quality of life is fundamental to end-of-life ...
Alan Meisel (Qual Life Res, 2003)
quality-life-end-life-decisionmaking.asp

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Summary and conclusions from the SIWI seminar for young water professionals water and sustainable development--how to ensure development without compromising sustainability?

There is a need to create a balance between development and conservation in order to find a way to mitigate the conflicting interest of water for society, the environment and the economy. Apart from finding a solution to this there is a need to get the ...
A Johannessen (Water Sci Technol, 2003)
summary-conclusions-siwi-seminar-young-water-professionals-water.asp

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Supporting informed consumer health care decisions: data presentation approaches that facilitate the use of information in choice.

To make informed choices and navigate within a complex health care system, consumers must have easily available, accurate, and timely information, and they must use it. Contrary to the consumer-driven approach, however, the evidence demonstrates that ...
Judith H Hibbard, Ellen Peters (Annu Rev Public Health, 2003)
supporting-informed-consumer-health-care-decisions-data-presentation.asp

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The economics of Alzheimer disease.

Economic assessments of health and healthcare have become an integral part of policy decisions in the last decade. Increasingly, this trend is extending to medical decision-making in day-to-day patient-provider interactions. Alzheimer disease (AD) offers ...
G M Leung, R Y T Yeung, I Chi, L W Chu (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord, 2003)
economics-alzheimer-disease.asp

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Surrogate decision-making: judgment standard preferences of older adults.

This qualitative study examines the judgment standard preferences of older adults related to surrogate decision-making for medical treatment. Thirty community dwelling adults over the age of 60 were presented with scenarios that depicted three ...
Crystal Dea Moore, Jennifer Sparr, Susan Sherman, Lisa Avery (Soc Work Health Care, 2003)
surrogate-decision-making-judgment-standard-preferences-older-adults.asp

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Alleviating water scarcity in Northern China: balancing options and policies among Chinese decision-makers.

Water scarcity is mostly a man-made problem that increasingly affects peoples lives and questions economic output in Northern China. Policy options addressing the serious water shortages in the region include conservation and water management reform, ...
F Lasserre (Water Sci Technol, 2003)
alleviating-water-scarcity-northern-china-balancing-options-policies.asp

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Regulating clinical practice: epistemological and cognitive perspectives.

This article analyzes the nature of clinical decision-making in order to clarify some of the impediments to the direct regulation of medical work. It develops the familiar idea of medicine as an art, showing that this includes the notion that each ...
John A Harrington (Med Law, 2003)
regulating-clinical-practice-epistemological-cognitive-perspectives.asp