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Difficult decisions: Ethics and AIDS
Journal of Sex Research, 1991Persons with AIDS (PWAs), who are marked by a diminution of their immune systems, are catapulted into a very different social reality. Thus, special attention is given to the necessity for legal empowerment and occupational contagion in the delivery of health care services by medical professionals.
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Decision aids, empowerment, and shared decision making
BMJ, 2014Each works or fails to work in patient-clinician conversations Finding unexpected results when testing our ideas is the basis of learning, experimentation, and scientific method. In a linked paper (doi:10.1136/bmj.g5651), Denig and colleagues report on a randomized trial of a decision aid for patients with type 2 diabetes.1 After much well executed ...
Ian, Hargraves, Victor M, Montori
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An introduction to patient decision aids
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, 2012Patient decision aids are a means of helping people make informed choices about healthcare that take into account their personal values and preferences. Decision aids are a part of a shared decision-making process, encouraging active participation by patients in healthcare decisions.1,2 Decision aids are relevant in many common ...
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The Dynamics of Humanitarian Aid Decisions
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013AbstractHumanitarian aid can be seen as a political investment motivated by altruism or by economic benefits for the donor. Uncertainty in the returns to this investment may generate hysteresis effects and inertia in aid allocations. I model the allocation decisions of the three largest humanitarian aid donors: the US government, the UK government and ...
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Decision aids and uptake of screening
BMJ, 2010Aids improve informed decision making, but not necessarily uptake Two linked papers assessed patient information in the prevention of bowel cancer: Kirkegaard and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.c5504) encouraged adherence with lifestyle recommendations,1 and Smith and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.c5370) facilitated informed screening choices.2 Smith and ...
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Decision Processes and Use of Decision Aids
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2005The authors report the results of a controlled laboratory experiment comparing the decision processes of participants from Taiwan and Japan. These two nations have very close geographical, cultural, historical, and economic ties. The results show that decision processes of Taiwanese differed from those of Japanese.
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Decision Making and Decision Aids
1996Systems can be described in terms of inputs transformed into outputs, as a process of fulfilment of a purpose, or the pursuit of a goal. The last is the equivalent of decision making and is a basic human activity. As a scientific area it is called praxeology and includes both normative and descriptive decision theory.
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An introduction to patient decision aids
BMJ, 2013Patient decision aids are a means of helping people make informed choices about healthcare that take into account their personal values and preferences. Decision aids are a part of a shared decision making process, encouraging active participation by patients in healthcare decisions.1 2 Decision aids are relevant in many common healthcare decisions ...
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Resolving the Decision Aid Paradox
JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015Formostmedical treatment decisions, there ismore than one reasonable choice.Althoughbacterialmeningitisneedsantibiotics,decisionsabouttreatmentsforconditionssuchasclinically localized prostate cancer havemany options, including observation,radiationtherapy,andsurgery.Inturn,eachofthesebroad treatmentcategorieshasvariants:watchfulwaiting, active ...
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Medical Decision Making, 2010
Background. Patient adherence to medication or lifestyle interventions is a serious concern. Interventions to improve adherence exist, but their effects are usually small. Several authors suggested that decision aids may positively affect adherence. Objective.
Stalmeier, P.F.M., Stalmeier, P.F.M.
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Background. Patient adherence to medication or lifestyle interventions is a serious concern. Interventions to improve adherence exist, but their effects are usually small. Several authors suggested that decision aids may positively affect adherence. Objective.
Stalmeier, P.F.M., Stalmeier, P.F.M.
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