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Rules of Proof, Courts, and Incentives [PDF]

We analyze the design of legal principles and procedures for court decision-making in civil litigation. The objective is the provision of appropriate incentives for potential tort-feasors to exert care, when evidence about care is imperfect and may be ...
Claude Fluet, Dominique Demougin
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Personalised Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: Evaluating Biomarker-based Approaches to Reduce Unnecessary Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Biopsy Procedures

European Urology Open Science
Background and objective: Efforts made over the last decade for the detection of prostate cancer (PCa) have revolutionised disease diagnostics, and implementation of prebiopsy magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has received widespread acceptance.
Timo F.W. Soeterik, Xiaobo Wu, Roderick C.N. Van den Bergh, Claudia Kesch, Fabio Zattoni, Ugo Falagario, Alberto Martini, Marcin Miszczyk, Vittorio Fasulo, Martina Maggi, Veeru Kasivisvanathan, Pawel Rajwa, Giancarlo Marra, Giorgio Gandaglia, Peter K.F. Chiu   +14 more
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Ethical Issues: DNR Revisited [PDF]

, 2005
EssayIn most cultures, when making treatment decisions for adults, children, and neonates with end stage illness, there tends to be universal agreement that overly aggressive treatment should be discouraged when death is near and further intervention is ...
Fleming, David A.
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Guideline for Minimizing Radiation Exposure of Interventionalists during Fluoroscopy-guided Interventional Procedures

The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
As fluoroscopy-guided interventional procedures gain popularity, the associated health threats from radiation exposure to interventionalists during these procedures are increasing.
Il Sang Shin, Yun Nah Lee, Jun Kyu Lee, Joo Seong Kim, Sung Bum Kim, Jiyoung Keum, Chang Hoon Oh, Kang Won Lee, Joowon Chung, Lyo Min Kwon, Nam Hee Kim, Sang Soo Lee, Byoung Kwan Son, Miyoung Choi   +13 more
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Evaluation of planning policies for marshalling track allocation using simulation [PDF]

, 2012
Planning the operational procedures in a railway marshalling yard is a complex problem. When a train arrives at a marshalling yard, it is uncoupled on an arrival yard and then its cars are rolled to a classification yard.
Bohlin, Markus, Gestrelius, Sara, Khoshniyat, Fahimeh   +2 more
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An Estimate of Preventable Harms Associated With Screening Colonoscopy Overuse in the U.S.

AJPM Focus
Introduction: Screening colonoscopy is often performed on patients who are younger or older than the ages specified in national guidelines or at shorter intervals than recommended.
Shannon Brownlee, MSc, Alison N. Huffstetler, MD, Joseph Fraiman, MD, Kenneth W. Lin, MD, MPH   +3 more
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Genetically defined individual reference ranges for tryptase limit unnecessary procedures and unmask myeloid neoplasms. [PDF]

Blood Adv, 2023
Chovanec J, Tunc I, Hughes J, Halstead J, Mateja A, Liu Y, O'Connell MP, Kim J, Park YH, Wang Q, Le Q, Pirooznia M, Trivedi NN, Bai Y, Yin Y, Hsu AP, McElwee J, Lassiter S, Nelson C, Bandoh J, DiMaggio T, Šelb J, Rijavec M, Carter MC, Komarow HD, Sabato V, Steinberg J, Hafer KM, Feuille E, Hourigan CS, Lack J, Khoury P, Maric I, Zanotti R, Bonadonna P, Schwartz LB, Milner JD, Glover SC, Ebo DG, Korošec P, Caughey GH, Brittain EH, Busby B, Metcalfe DD, Lyons JJ.   +44 more
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Improved finite-difference vibration analysis of pretwisted, tapered beams [PDF]

An improved finite difference procedure based upon second order central differences is developed. Several difficulties encountered in earlier works with fictitious stations that arise in using second order central differences, are eliminated by ...
Kaza, K. R. V., Subrahmanyam, K. B.
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Diagnosis and Unnecessary Procedure Use: Evidence from C-Section

, 2013
This paper develops and applies a model in which doctors have two dimensions of skill: diagnostic skill and skill performing procedures. Higher procedural skill increases the use of intensive procedures across the board, while better diagnostic skill results in fewer intensive procedures for the low risk, but more for the high risk.
Currie, Janet, MacLeod, W. Bentley
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A Comparative Analysis of the Bootstrap versus Traditional Statistical Procedures Applied to Digital Analysis Based on Benford\u27s Law [PDF]

, 2010
This study develops a bootstrap procedure applied to digital analysis based on Benford’s Law. It shows that the developed procedure provides accurate diagnoses of fraud as opposed to traditional statistical procedures.
Headrick, Todd C., Suh, Ik Seon
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