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Mapping of multiple criteria for priority setting of health interventions: an aid for decision makers

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background In rationing decisions in health, many criteria like costs, effectiveness, equity and feasibility concerns play a role. These criteria stem from different disciplines that all aim to inform health care rationing decisions, but a single ...
Tromp Noor, Baltussen Rob
doaj   +1 more source

‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Guidance from the Department for Education stipulates that permanent exclusions should only be used as a last resort and where there is potential for harm to come to anyone in the school setting. Suspensions are positioned as a tool to communicate to a pupil that their behaviour is in breach of the school's behaviour policy.
Megan Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

Benefits and Challenges of Policy Options in Rationing the Hospital Radiology Services: A Case Study

open access: yesRāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2020
Objective: In many countries, limiting the financial and budgetary resources is a challenge in the health system. One of the most costly parts of the health system is undoubtedly the radiology department of hospitals.
Hasan Jafari   +5 more
doaj  

On Second Thought: The Impact of Confessions, DNA, and Belief Perseverance on Students' Perceptions of Guilt and Interrogations

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A idade como critério de limitação terapêutica. A evidência e os enviesamentos

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2005
Resumo: A idade como critério de limitação de determinadas intervenções terapêuticas tem estado na origem de um dos debates bioéticos da actualidade. O aumento da esperança média de vida à nascença e o crescente envelhecimento da população, por um lado ...
Filipe Monteiro
doaj   +1 more source

A perspective review of applications of the computed tomography (CT) scan imaging technique for microscopic reservoir rock characterization

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
In this review, the application of micro‐CT and medical‐CT scanning in the oil and gas industry has been thoroughly discussed. Recent improvements in DRP and modern imaging techniques in the oil and gas industry have been modeled using both experimental and simulation work.
Achinta Bera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hands on the Patient with Eyes on the Budget

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
In 1993, Marcia Angell wrote an article highlighting the growing trend of doctors being asked to function as “double agents,” meaning physicians had to weigh their duty to patient care against the social costs of medical services.[1]  This situation of ...
Sebastian Agredo
doaj   +1 more source

Disability ethics in the coronavirus crisis

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
The disability viewpoint is fundamental for understanding and advancing social justice for everyone in the population. Despite this fact, it is regularly dismissed by public health experts and policymakers.
Satendra Singh
doaj   +1 more source

Do Institutions Make Street‐Level Bureaucrats Prosocial? Agent‐Based Evidence Shows That New Public Management Does Not

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
wiley   +1 more source

Inconsistent Transcriptomic Responses to Hexabromocyclododecane in Japanese Quail: A Comparative Analysis of Results From Four Different Study Designs

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to use transcriptomics for toxicity testing have classically relied on the assumption that chemicals consistently produce characteristic transcriptomic signatures that are reflective of their mechanism of action. However, the degree to which transcriptomic responses are conserved across different test methodologies has seldom been ...
Paul Béziers   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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