Decision Making

501.

The perceived utility of human and automated aids in a visual detection task.

Although increases in the use of automation have occurred across society, research has found that human operators often underutilize (disuse) and overly rely on (misuse) automated aids (R. Parasuraman & V. Riley, 1997). Nearly 275 Cameron University ...
Mary T Dzindolet, Linda G Pierce, Hall P Beck, Lloyd A Dawe (Hum Factors, 2002SPRING)
perceived-utility-human-automated-aids-visual-detection-task.asp

502.

National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). HTA rhyme and reason?

The technology appraisal program of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) was established on April 1, 1999. Its role is to advise the NHS in England and Wales on the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and service impact of new ...
Rod Taylor (Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 2002SPRING)
national-institute-clinical-excellence-nice-hta-rhyme-reason.asp

503.

General practitioners attitudes and ethical decisions in end-of-life care after a year of interactive Internet-based training.

BACKGROUND: Personal characteristics affect physicians end-of-life decisions. Education in palliative care (PC) faces a challenge in influencing doctors attitudes and decision making in PC. A one-year Internet-mediated education project was arranged for ...
Heikki Hinkka, Elise Kosunen, Riina Metsänoja, Ulla-Kaija Lammi, Pirkko Kellokumpu-Lehtinen (J Cancer Educ, 2002SPRING)
general-practitioners-attitudes-ethical-decisions-end-life-care-after.asp

504.

Review, deliberation, and voting: a study of selection decisions in a medical school admission committee.

BACKGROUND: Medical school admission committees differ in their decision-making procedures. Some assign ratings to groups of application materials to devise rank order acceptance lists, whereas others deliberate and vote on each separate application. ...
Carol L Elam, Terry D Stratton, Kimberly L Scott, John F Wilson, Arthur Lieber (Teach Learn Med, 2002SPRING)
review-deliberation-voting-study-selection-decisions-medical-school.asp

505.

Health technology assessment for the NHS in England and Wales.

In healthcare decision making, there is an important functional separation between assessment and appraisal. In the U.K. National Health Service (NHS), this distinction is illustrated by the separation of roles between the Health Technology Assessment ...
Kent Woods (Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 2002SPRING)
health-technology-assessment-nhs-england-wales.asp

506.

Agreeing with automated diagnostic aids: a study of users concurrence strategies.

Automated diagnostic aids that are less than perfectly reliable often produce unwarranted levels of disuse by operators. In the present study, users tendencies to either agree or disagree with automated diagnostic aids were examined under conditions in ...
Douglas A Wiegmann (Hum Factors, 2002SPRING)
agreeing-automated-diagnostic-aids-study-users-concurrence-strategies.asp

507.

Offshore safety case approach and formal safety assessment of ships.

PROBLEM: Tragic marine and offshore accidents have caused serious consequences including loss of lives, loss of property, and damage of the environment. METHOD: A proactive, risk-based "goal setting" regime is introduced to the marine and offshore ...
J Wang (J Safety Res, 2002SPRING)
offshore-safety-case-approach-formal-safety-assessment-ships.asp

508.

The Karamazov complex: Dostoevsky and DNR orders.

Families making difficult end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit often do not exercise their autonomy in accord with the individualistic philosophic and legal models that currently prevail. Instead, they try to avoid responsibility and deny ...
Martha M Montello, John D Lantos (Perspect Biol Med, 2002SPRING)
karamazov-complex-dostoevsky-dnr-orders.asp

509.

Reconstructing the stem cell debate.

Human embryonic stem cells have been a major topic in science, medicine, and religion since their discovery in 1998. However, due to the complex discourse and rhetoric of scientific language, debate has remained within the professional realm via "expert ...
Bradley J Sitko (Princet J Bioeth, 2002SPRING)
reconstructing-stem-cell-debate.asp

510.

Building and assessing competence: the potential for evidence-based graduate medical education.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has recently begun to use educational outcome measures as an accreditation tool. This long-term initiative offers the potential for building knowledge about effective educational ...
David C Leach (Qual Manag Health Care, 2002FALL)
building-assessing-competence-potential-evidence-based-graduate.asp