Decision Making

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Achieving quality in clinical decision making: cognitive strategies and detection of bias.

Clinical decision making is a cornerstone of high-quality care in emergency medicine. The density of decision making is unusually high in this unique milieu, and a combination of strategies has necessarily evolved to manage the load. In addition to the ...
Pat Croskerry (Acad Emerg Med, 200211)
achieving-quality-clinical-decision-making-cognitive-strategies.asp

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Medical errors-what and when: what do patients want to know?

OBJECTIVES: 1) To determine how and when emergency department (ED) patients and their families wish to learn of health care errors. 2) To assess the error threshold this population believes should trigger reporting to government agencies, state medical ...
Cherri Hobgood, Clifford R Peck, Benjamin Gilbert, Kathryn Chappell, Bin Zou (Acad Emerg Med, 200211)
medical-errors-patients-want-know.asp

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Multiple payers, commonality and free-riding in health care: Medicare and private payers.

Managed health care plans and providers in the US and elsewhere sell their services to multiple payers. For example, the three largest groups of purchasers from health plans in the US are employers, Medicaid plans, and Medicare, with the first two ...
Jacob Glazer, Thomas G McGuire (J Health Econ, 200211)
multiple-payers-commonality-free-riding-health-care-medicare-private.asp

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Quality of life of Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) patients: how good are physicians in assessing DNR patients quality of life?

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: To assess 1) the impact of quality of life evaluation on the implementation of Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) orders by physicians, 2) the accuracy of physicians estimation of DNR patients quality of life. METHODS: A 10-month prospective ...
Noëlle Junod Perron, Alfredo Morabia, Antoine de Torrenté (Swiss Med Wkly, 200211)
quality-life-not-resuscitate-dnr-patients-good-physicians-assessing.asp

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Parents as experts: the position of parents of children with profound multiple disabilities.

BACKGROUND: Parents of children with disabilities are increasingly considered as experts in the field of care. Their expertise can deliver an important contribution towards planning their childs care and education. The law is increasingly taking this ...
K I de Geeter, P Poppes, C Vlaskamp (Child Care Health Dev, 200211)
parents-experts-position-parents-children-profound-multiple.asp

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Benchmarking the clinical prosthetic dental literature on MEDLINE.

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: The utility of evidence-based clinical prosthetic dental decision making is, in part, predicated on the availability of high-quality clinical trials and the use of current best evidence. With literature or outcomes continually ...
Kenichi Nishimura, Faheem Rasool, Michael B Ferguson, Morton Sobel, Richard Niederman (J Prosthet Dent, 200211)
benchmarking-clinical-prosthetic-dental-literature-medline.asp

627.

The effect of report cards on consumer choice in the health insurance market.

We test the effect of report cards on consumer choice in the HMO market. Federal employees were provided with report cards on a limited basis in 1995 and then on a widespread basis in 1996. Exploiting this natural experiment, we find that subjective ...
Gerard J Wedig, Ming Tai-Seale (J Health Econ, 200211)
effect-report-cards-consumer-choice-health-insurance-market.asp

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Cervical manipulation--how might informed consent be obtained before treatment?

This article discusses methods and mediums of obtaining informed consent in physiotherapy clinical practice, specifically in relation to cervical manipulation. Whilst cervical manipulation is a useful method of treatment for spinal joint pain and ...
Clare Delany (J Law Med, 200211)
cervical-manipulation-informed-consent-treatment.asp

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Relationship power, decision making, and sexual relations: an exploratory study with couples of Mexican origin.

This study explored how couples of Mexican origin define power in intimate relationships, what makes men and women feel powerful in relationships, and the role of each partner in decision making about sexual and reproductive matters. Interviews were ...
S Marie Harvey, Linda J Beckman, Carole H Browner, Christy A Sherman (J Sex Res, 200211)
relationship-power-decision-making-sexual-relations-exploratory-study.asp

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Kinder and gentler: physicians and managed care, 1997-2001.

Despite the managed care backlash, an overwhelming majority of U.S. physicians continue to contract with managed care health plans. In fact, according to a new Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) study, between 1997 and 2001 physicians ...
Bradley C Strunk, James D Reschovsky (Track Rep, 200211)
kinder-gentler-physicians-managed-care.asp