Decision Making

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Intergroup conflict: individual, group, and collective interests.

Intergroup conflicts generally involve conflicts of interests within the competing groups as well. This article outlines a taxonomy of games, called team games, which incorporates the intragroup and intergroup levels of conflict. Its aims are to provide ...
Gary Bornstein (Pers Soc Psychol Rev, 2003)
intergroup-conflict-individual-group-collective-interests.asp

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Why do women decline prenatal screening and diagnosis? Australian womens perspective.

In this paper, we examine reasons for declining both prenatal screening, and diagnosis among a small group of pregnant women in Victoria, Australia. Semi-structured questionnaires were used to elicit womens account of their refusals of offers during ...
Pranee Liamputtong, Jane L Halliday, Rosemary Warren, F Watson, Robin J Bell (Women Health, 2003)
why-women-decline-prenatal-screening-diagnosis-australian-women-s.asp

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Law and geriatrics: an Israeli perspective on future challenges.

This paper describes current problems in Israel in the fields of geriatric medicine and elder law. The background to the problems is discussed, with a commentary on the deficiencies in everyday practice. The author presents proposals for change both in ...
Israel Doron (Med Law, 2003)
law-geriatrics-israeli-perspective-future-challenges.asp

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Including health in transport policy agendas: the role of health impact assessment analyses and procedures in the European experience.

From the mid-1990s, research began to highlight the importance of a wide range of health impacts of transport policy decisions. The Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health adopted a Charter on Transport, Environment and Health based on ...
Carlos Dora, Francesca Racioppi (Bull World Health Organ, 2003)
including-health-transport-policy-agendas-role-health-impact.asp

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Controversies in amputation surgery.

Amputation surgery should be the first step in the rehabilitation of a patient with a nonfunctional limb, rather than the final step in treatment. When faced with a difficult decision regarding lower extremity amputation compared with attempted limb ...
Michael S Pinzur, Marco A Guedes de Souza Pinto, Lew C Schon, Douglas G Smith (Instr Course Lect, 2003)
controversies-amputation-surgery.asp

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Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about entering screening programs.

BACKGROUND: There is a trend towards greater patient involvement in health care decisions. Adequate discussion of the risks and benefits associated with different choices is often required if involvement is to be genuine and effective. Achieving adequate ...
A Edwards, S Unigwe, G Elwyn, K Hood (Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2003)
personalised-risk-communication-informed-decision-making-entering.asp

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How can research organizations more effectively transfer research knowledge to decision makers?

Five questions--What should be transferred to decision makers? To whom should it be transferred? By whom? How? With what effect?--provide an organizing framework for a knowledge transfer strategy. Opportunities for improving how research organizations ...
John N Lavis, Dave Robertson, Jennifer M Woodside, Christopher B McLeod, Julia Abelson, (Milbank Q, 2003)
research-organizations-more-effectively-transfer-research-knowledge.asp

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The significance of quality of life in health care.

This paper compares a traditional biomedical model with an outcomes model for evaluating health care. The traditional model emphasizes diagnosis and disease-specific outcomes. In contrast, the outcomes model emphasizes life expectancy and health-related ...
Robert M Kaplan (Qual Life Res, 2003)
significance-quality-life-health-care.asp

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Task demands, task interest, and task performance: implications for human subjects research and practicing what we preach.

Through the continuous investigation of humans in organizations, we have learned much about motivation, attitudes, and performance. For example, Yukl and others have helped increase our understanding of influence tactics and the effect they have on the ...
Daniel M Eveleth, Arun Pillutla (Ethics Behav, 2003)
task-demands-task-interest-task-performance-implications-human.asp

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Decision-making process for living kidney donors.

PURPOSE: To explore what people experienced when deciding to donate a kidney and to explore associated issues and concerns when they made their decisions. DESIGN: Grounded theory. METHOD: The data were collected in Korea through semi-structured ...
Myungsun Yi (J Nurs Scholarsh, 2003)
decision-making-process-living-kidney-donors.asp