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Decision Aids for Local Decision-Making [PDF]

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1981
Rural areas and small communities had a higher population growth rate during the 70s than metropolitan communities. This is the first time this had occurred in 160 years. Preliminary 1980 census figures indicate that nonmetropolitan counties increased in population by about 15%, whereas metropolitan counties increased by about 9% from 1970-80. However,
Doeksen, Gerald A., Nelson, James R., Doeksen, Gerald A., Nelson, James R.   +3 more
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Text summarization as a decision support aid

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012
Background PubMed data potentially can provide decision support information, but PubMed was not exclusively designed to be a point-of-care tool. Natural language processing applications that summarize PubMed citations hold promise for extracting decision
Workman T, Fiszman Marcelo, Hurdle John F   +2 more
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Development and acceptability testing of a decision aid for considering whether to reduce antipsychotics in individuals with stable schizophrenia

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2023
Aim Continued antipsychotic treatment is the key to preventing relapse. Maintenance antipsychotic monotherapy and optimal dose use are recommended for individuals with stable schizophrenia because of their undesirable effects.
Yumi Aoki, Yoshikazu Takaesu, Kentaro Matsui, Takahiro Tokumasu, Hideaki Tani, Yoshiteru Takekita, Tetsufumi Kanazawa, Taishiro Kishimoto, Seiichiro Tarutani, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroyoshi Takeuchi, Kazuo Mishima, Ken Inada   +12 more
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Ordinal Measurement in Decision Aid

Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 1999
Abstract The paper presents an ongoing research project concerning the use of ordinal measurement in situations of decision aiding. It is more and more often necessary to handle ordinal information and qualitative data in decision situations and our project aims to provide flexible and reliable tools in such cases.
Alexis Tsoukiàs, Vincent Mousseau
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Effect of Shared Decision‐Making for Stroke Prevention on Treatment Adherence and Safety Outcomes in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background Guidelines promote shared decision‐making (SDM) for anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation. We recently showed that adding a within‐encounter SDM tool to usual care (UC) increases patient involvement in decision‐making and ...
Peter A. Noseworthy, Megan E. Branda, Marleen Kunneman, Ian G. Hargraves, Angela L. Sivly, Juan P. Brito, Bruce Burnett, Claudia Zeballos‐Palacios, Mark Linzer, Takeki Suzuki, Alexander T. Lee, Haeshik Gorr, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Erik Hess, Sarah R. Brand‐McCarthy, Nilay D. Shah, Victor M. Montori   +16 more
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Decision Aids [PDF]

Medical Decision Making, 2015
Background. Conscious and unconscious biases can influence how people interpret new information and make decisions. Current standards for creating decision aids, however, do not address this issue. Method. Using a 2×2 factorial design, we developed surveys that contained a decision scenario (involving a choice between aspirin or a statin drug to lower ...
James G, Dolan, Olena A, Cherkasky, Nancy, Chin, Peter J, Veazie   +3 more
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Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Bone Sarcoma Patients: A 10‐Year, Single‐Institution Experience Encompassing the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing sarcoma (EWS) are the most common primary bone cancers in children, but acute thrombosis is poorly characterized in this population. Our study evaluated the rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and associated risk factors in pediatric patients with bone sarcomas treated over a 10‐year period encompassing
Sarah Kappa, Shou Xu, Mark Zobeck, Sarah E. Sartain, Nino Rainusso, Lisa Wang, Nicole Montgomery, Paige Wheaton, Sarah Whittle   +8 more
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Informing the development of a decision aid: Expectations and wishes from service users and psychiatrists towards a decision aid for antipsychotics in the inpatient setting

Health Expectations, 2023
Objectives Decision aids (DAs) are promising tools to foster evidence‐based shared decision‐making between practitioners and service users. Nevertheless, it is still obscure how an evidence‐based DA for people with severe mental illness, especially ...
Katharina Müller, Florian Schuster, Silvia Krumm, Stefan Leucht, Spyridon Siafis, Stephan Heres, Peter Brieger, Johannes Hamann   +7 more
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Shared decision making and patient decision aids in dermatology [PDF]

British Journal of Dermatology, 2016
Shared decision making combines individual patient interests and values with clinical best evidence under the guiding principle of patient autonomy. Patient decision aids can support shared decision making and facilitate decisions that have multiple options with varying outcomes for which patients may attribute different values.
Tan, J., Linos, E., Sendelweck, M.A., Zuuren, E.J. van, Ersser, S., Dellavalle, R.P., Williams, H.   +6 more
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