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Medical Professionals' Treatment Decisions for Critical Patients With Ambiguous Treatment Wishes: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Health Science Reports
Background and Aims Many patients do not want life‐prolonging treatments at critical stages of their illnesses, and are able to communicate their wishes to their families or surrogates.
Kanako Yamamoto
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To Reconstruct or Not to Reconstruct: Piloting a Vietnamese and Arabic Breast Reconstruction Decision Aid in Australia

Current Oncology
Currently, there are no resources to support culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women with breast cancer to make decisions about undergoing breast reconstruction (BR).
Patsy S. Soon, Khouloud Kamalmaz, Verena S. Wu, Neda Karimi, Martha Gerges, Kerry A. Sherman, Afaf Girgis   +6 more
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Shared decision making for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2017
Background Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common ongoing health problem that places patients at risk of stroke. Whether and how a patient addresses this risk depends on each patient’s goals, context, and values.
Marleen Kunneman, Megan E. Branda, Peter A. Noseworthy, Mark Linzer, Bruce Burnett, Sara Dick, Gabriela Spencer-Bonilla, Cara A. Fernandez, Haeshik Gorr, Mike Wambua, Shelly Keune, Claudia Zeballos-Palacios, Ian Hargraves, Nilay D. Shah, Victor M. Montori   +14 more
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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
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Decision aid problems criteria for infrastructure networks vulnerability analysis (regular paper) [PDF]

, 2013
Natural disasters through infrastructure networks might aggravate or mitigate consequences to stakes. The objective of this paper is to characterize this kind of situation in order to provide a solid foundation for the decision aid. This characterization
Kamissoko, Daouda, Pérès, François, Zaraté, Pascale   +2 more
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Learning Features that Predict Cue Usage [PDF]

, 1997
Our goal is to identify the features that predict the occurrence and placement of discourse cues in tutorial explanations in order to aid in the automatic generation of explanations.
Di Eugenio, Barbara, Moore, Johanna D., Paolucci, Massimo   +2 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Feasibility of implementing a decision aid for advanced cancer patients in a comprehensive cancer centers' outpatient setting: Valuable lessons learned

Cancer Medicine
Background Decision aids (DAs) have been proposed as tools to empower patients in decision‐making. However, implementing DA for decisions in advanced cancer is challenging.
K. Laryionava, R. Boekels, J. Schildmann, M. Wensing, U. Wedding, B. Surmann, K. Mehlis, C. Gebel, M. Cinci, K. Krug, E. C. Winkler   +10 more
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Design and implementation of a decision aid for juvenile idiopathic arthritis medication choices

Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal, 2017
Background Randomized trials have demonstrated the efficacy of patient decision aids to facilitate shared decision making in clinical situations with multiple medically reasonable options for treatment.
William B. Brinkman, Ellen A. Lipstein, Janalee Taylor, Pamela J. Schoettker, Katherine Naylor, Karla Jones, Sheetal S. Vora, Catherine C. Mims, Elizabeth Roth-Wojcicki, Beth Gottlieb, Nancy Griffin, Carole Lannon, Esi Morgan   +12 more
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Which heuristics can aid financial-decision-making? [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 Elsevier Inc. We evaluate the contribution of Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, often in association with his late co-author Amos Tversky, to the development of our understanding of financial decision-making and the evolution of behavioural ...
Forbes, William, Hudson, Robert, Skerratt, Len, Soufian, Mona   +3 more
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