Decision Making

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Risk assessment of chemicals -- the role of epidemiological methods.

OBJECTIVES: The paper discusses methodological approaches in the evaluation of epidemiological data for health risk assessment. METHODS: The discussion is based on the overviews of epidemiological evidence for health hazard characterisation from primary ...
Stanislaw Tarkowski (Int Arch Occup Environ Health, 200210)
risk-assessment-chemicals-role-epidemiological-methods.asp

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Discussing treatment options and risks with medical patients who have psychiatric problems.

Discussing medical treatment options and risks becomes a more complicated task when patients have psychiatric problems. Such patients may perceive risk and judge options differently from usual, they raise special issues about informed consent and ...
David E Ness (Arch Intern Med, 200210)
discussing-treatment-options-risks-medical-patients-who-psychiatric.asp

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Use or misuse of the selection task? Rejoinder to Fiddick, Cosmides, and Tooby.

Sperber, Cara, and Girotto (Cognition 52 (1995) 3) argued that, in Wasons selection task, relevance-guided comprehension processes tend to determine participants performance and pre-empt the use of other inferential capacities. Because of this, the value ...
Dan Sperber, Vittorio Girotto (Cognition, 200210)
or-misuse-selection-task-rejoinder-fiddick-cosmides-tooby.asp

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The validity of contracts to dispose of frozen embryos.

The widespread abandonment of frozen embryos by the gamete providers or intentional parents urgently demands a solution. Most centres react by requiring patients to enter a prior agreement governing the future disposition of their embryos in all ...
G Pennings (J Med Ethics, 200210)
validity-contracts-dispose-frozen-embryos.asp

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Increasing use of DNR orders in the elderly worldwide: whose choice is it?

Most elderly patients die with an order in place that they not be given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNR order). Surveys have shown that many elderly in different parts of the world want to be resuscitated, but may lack knowledge about the specifics of ...
E P Cherniack (J Med Ethics, 200210)
increasing-dnr-orders-elderly-worldwide-whose-choice-it.asp

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Informed consent of the minor. Implications of present day Spanish law.

In Spain, any person under the age of 18 is a minor. Generally, minors lack the legal capacity to take legally binding actions because they are deemed incapable of legally binding consent. Spanish civil law recognises, however, that the child, in ...
M D Pérez-Cárceles, E Osuna, A Luna (J Med Ethics, 200210)
informed-consent-minor-implications-present-day-spanish-law.asp

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Practice-informed research and research-informed psychotherapy.

The information processing demands of planning and conducting psychotherapy and the types of information that clinicians value potentially can inform research that is likely to be useful to clinicians. Four approaches to conducting research on ...
Robert J Lueger (J Clin Psychol, 200210)
practice-informed-research-research-informed-psychotherapy.asp

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Internship placement data: is nonplacement the only concern?

Current discussion regarding securing internships often focuses on their availability. Thus, quantity is especially emphasized. However, quality is also an issue of importance. The number of intern applicants receiving slots at quality internship sites, ...
Mary E Oehlert, Scott W Sumerall, Shane J Lopez, Katherine B Merkley (J Clin Psychol, 200210)
internship-placement-data-nonplacement-only-concern.asp

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Diversity, the individual, and proof of efficacy: complementary and alternative medicine in medical education.

Patients will always have access to a variety of possibly effective, but unproved, therapies directed at maintaining health or treating illness. And there will always be complex, potentially therapeutic regimens that cannot be adequately tested for ...
Constance M Park (Am J Public Health, 200210)
diversity-individual-proof-efficacy-complementary-alternative.asp

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Navigating the storm of mental illness: phases in the familys journey.

About 1.25 million American families live with persistently mentally ill members. Costs, personal and public, are substantial. Research providing holistic understanding of the processes these families experience is needed. This qualitative studys ...
Susan A Muhlbauer (Qual Health Res, 200210)
navigating-storm-mental-illness-phases-family-s-journey.asp