Decision Making

491.

Use of a fixed-base driving simulator to evaluate the effects of experience and PC-based risk awareness training on drivers decisions.

Driver education classes were once seen as a remedy for young drivers overinvolvement in crashes, but research results from the early 1970s were disappointing. Few changes in the content or methods of instruction occurred until recently, but this could ...
Donald L Fisher, Nancy E Laurie, Robert Glaser, Karen Connerney, Alexander Pollatsek, Susan A Duffy, John Brock (Hum Factors, 2002SUMMER)
fixed-base-driving-simulator-evaluate-effects-experience-pc-based.asp

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The role of situation assessment and flight experience in pilots decisions to continue visual flight rules flight into adverse weather.

Visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is a major safety hazard in general aviation. In this study we examined pilots decisions to continue or divert from a VFR flight into IMC during a dynamic simulation of a ...
Douglas A Wiegmann, Juliana Goh, David OHare (Hum Factors, 2002SUMMER)
role-situation-assessment-flight-experience-pilots-decisions-continue.asp

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Dental ethics for the 21st century: learning from the Charter on Medical Professionalism.

At chairside the dentist is obligated to act primarily in the patients interests, to fully and honestly inform patients, enable them to make their own treatment choices, and provide competent, continually improving care. Dentists must also recognize that ...
Arthur L Yeager (J Am Coll Dent, 2002SUMMER)
dental-ethics-st-century-learning-charter-medical-professionalism.asp

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No magic targets! Changing clinical practice to become more evidence based.

This article focuses on the diffusion and adoption of innovations in clinical practice. The authors are specifically interested in underresearched questions concerning the latter stages of the creation, diffusion, and adoption of new knowledge, namely: ...
Sue Dopson, Louise FitzGerald, Ewan Ferlie, John Gabbay, Louise Locock (Health Care Manage Rev, 2002SUMMER)
magic-targets-changing-clinical-practice-become-more-evidence-based.asp

495.

In the Michigan Court of Appeals: In the Matter of AMB, a Minor.

HOLDING: In the accelerating rush to judgment that occurred here, a series of legal errors and missteps following a preliminary hearing compounded what was already an excruciatingly difficult and complex situation. The record strongly suggests that no ...
Barry A Bostrom (Issues Law Med, 2002SUMMER)
michigan-court-appeals-matter-amb-minor.asp

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Investing in safety an analytical precautionary principle.

PROBLEM: Governments and businesses must respond to increasing safety requirements and balance the associated costs with productivity and competing pressures. METHOD: A real options approach has been introduced for decision making in the private sector; ...
Scott Farrow, Hiroshi Hayakawa (J Safety Res, 2002SUMMER)
investing-safety-analytical-precautionary-principle.asp

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Relationship between Alzheimers disease severity and patient participation in decisions about their medical care.

To examine the relationships between Alzheimers disease (AD) severity and patient participation in decisions about their medical care, we performed a cross-sectional study of 74 caregivers ratings of the degree to which AD patients participate in making ...
Jason H T Karlawish, David Casarett, Kathleen Joy Propert, Bryan D James, Christopher M Clark (J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol, 2002SUMMER)
relationship-alzheimer-s-disease-severity-patient-participation.asp

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Leadership in turbulent times is spiritual.

In the past decade, two formerly estranged domains, spirituality and work, have been increasingly linked. Why has this happened? This articles posits that this strange union is an unavoidable consequence of living in a turbulent time. As our world grows ...
Margaret J Wheatley (Front Health Serv Manage, 2002SUMMER)
leadership-turbulent-times-spiritual.asp

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Finding the target: getting started with quality of care and health services research.

Choosing a research project and career goal requires planning. This article provides advice for the junior investigator on choosing a career path in health services research or quality improvement, developing and focusing project ideas, and assessing the ...
Michael A Steinman, C Seth Landefeld (Qual Manag Health Care, 2002SPRING)
finding-target-getting-started-quality-care-health-services-research.asp

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Health technology assessment. The pharmaceutical industry perspective.

Increasingly, health technology assessment (HTA) is used to aid decisions on the reimbursement of pharmaceuticals or recommendations for their use. The pharmaceutical industry seeks to work in partnership with HTA agencies; however, this presents a ...
Francois Schubert (Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 2002SPRING)
health-technology-assessment-pharmaceutical-industry-perspective.asp