Decision Making

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Patients attitudes vs. physicians determination: implications for cesarean sections.

Most research studies identifying non-clinical factors that influence the choice of Cesarean Section as a method of obstetric delivery assume that the physician makes the decision. This paper arguably shows the role played by the mother. Owing to the ...
Joan C Lo (Soc Sci Med, 200307)
patients-attitudes-vs-physicians-determination-implications-cesarean.asp

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Biased predecision processing.

Decision makers conduct biased predecision processing when they restructure their mental representation of the decision environment to favor one alternative before making their choice. The question of whether biased predecision processing occurs has been ...
Aaron L Brownstein (Psychol Bull, 200307)
biased-predecision-processing.asp

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Critical care nurses use of decision-making strategies.

Effective decision-making has the potential to facilitate improvements in health care. This paper reports several aspects of a study which used "thinking aloud" within a concept attainment framework to examine the decision-making processes of expert ...
Leanne M Aitken (J Clin Nurs, 200307)
critical-care-nurses-decision-making-strategies.asp

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Attitudes and preferences of intensivists regarding the role of family interests in medical decision making for incompetent patients.

OBJECTIVE: The role of family interests in medical decision making is controversial. Physicians who routinely treat incompetent patients may have preferred strategies for addressing family interests as they are encountered in surrogate medical decision ...
George E Hardart, Robert D Truog (Crit Care Med, 200307)
attitudes-preferences-intensivists-role-family-interests-medical.asp

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Quantifying and reporting uncertainty from systematic errors.

Optimal use of epidemiologic findings in decision making requires more information than standard analyses provide. It requires calculating and reporting the total uncertainty in the results, which in turn requires methods for quantifying the uncertainty ...
Carl V Phillips (Epidemiology, 200307)
quantifying-reporting-uncertainty-systematic-errors.asp

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Influence of prime-target relationship on semantic priming effects from words in a lexical-decision task.

The present research examines the influence of prime-target relationship (associative and categorical versus categorical only) on priming effects from attended and ignored parafoveal words. Participants performed a lexical-decision task on a single ...
María J F Abad, Carmen Noguera, Juan J Ortells (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200307)
influence-prime-target-relationship-semantic-priming-effects-words.asp

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Why do parents decide against immunization? The effect of health beliefs and health professionals.

OBJECTIVES: To explore the knowledge, attitudes and concerns with respect to immunization and vaccine-preventable infections in parents whose children have not completed the recommended course of immunization. SETTING: Parents of children resident in the ...
M S Smailbegovic, G J Laing, H Bedford (Child Care Health Dev, 200307)
why-parents-decide-against-immunization-effect-health-beliefs-health.asp

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Deliberations about deliberative methods: issues in the design and evaluation of public participation processes.

A common thread weaving through the current public participation debate is the need for new approaches that emphasize two-way interaction between decision makers and the public as well as deliberation among participants. Increasingly complex decision ...
Julia Abelson, Pierre-Gerlier Forest, John Eyles, Patricia Smith, Elisabeth Martin, Francois-Pierre Gauvin (Soc Sci Med, 200307)
deliberations-deliberative-methods-issues-design-evaluation-public.asp

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Knowledge systems for sustainable development.

The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earths life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science and technology (S&T) must play a ...
David W Cash, William C Clark, Frank Alcock, Nancy M Dickson, Noelle Eckley, David H Guston, Jill Jäger, Ronald B Mitchell (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 200307)
knowledge-systems-sustainable-development.asp

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Towards a decision support system for health promotion in nursing.

AIMS: This study was designed to investigate what type of models, techniques and data are necessary to support the development of a decision support system for health promotion practice in nursing. Specifically, the research explored how interview data ...
Kate Caelli, Jill Downie, Terry Caelli (J Adv Nurs, 200307)
towards-decision-support-system-health-promotion-nursing.asp