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The effect of alternative summary statistics for communicating risk reduction on decisions about taking statins: a randomized trial.

23 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: While different ways of presenting treatment effects can affect health care decisions, little is known about which presentations best help people make decisions consistent with their own values. We compared six summary statistics for ...
rec_pub_19707575-the-effect-alternative-summary-statistics-communicating-risk.htm


Shared decision-making and patient autonomy.

20 Aug 2009 In patient-centred care, shared decision-making is advocated as the preferred form of medical decision-making. Shared decision-making is supported with reference to patient autonomy without abandoning the patient or giving up the possibility of ...
rec_pub_19701695-shared-decision-making-patient-autonomy.htm


Factors influencing prescribing behaviour of physicians in Greece and Cyprus: results from a questionnaire based survey.

18 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Over the past few decades, drug and overall healthcare expenditure have risen rapidly in most countries. The present study investigates the attitudes and the factors which influence physician prescribing decisions and practice in Greece ...
rec_pub_19695079-factors-influencing-prescribing-behaviour-physicians-greece-cyprus.htm


The search for reasons in a unified relationship.

17 Aug 2009 The paternalism, autonomy debate was influenced by traditional ideas that reasons are either objective (based on values existing independent of any particular person) or subjective (based on values tied to individual's personal histories). This ...
rec_pub_19692674-the-search-reasons-unified-relationship.htm


Decision support in vaccination policies.

17 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Looking across boarders reveals that the national immunization programs of various countries differ in their vaccination schedules and decisions regarding the implementation and funding of new vaccines. The aim of this review is to ...
rec_pub_19698809-decision-support-vaccination-policies.htm


Changes of mind in decision-making.

17 Aug 2009 A decision is a commitment to a proposition or plan of action based on evidence and the expected costs and benefits associated with the outcome. Progress in a variety of fields has led to a quantitative understanding of the mechanisms that evaluate ...
rec_pub_19693010-changes-mind-decision-making.htm


Health care providers' attitudes towards termination of pregnancy: a qualitative study in South Africa.

16 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Despite changes to the abortion legislation in South Africa in 1996, barriers to women accessing abortion services still exist including provider opposition to abortions and a shortage of trained and willing abortion care providers. The ...
rec_pub_19689791-health-care-providers-attitudes-termination-pregnancy-qualitative.htm


Evidence-based medicine must be ...

16 Aug 2009 Proponents of evidence-based medicine (EBM) provide the "hierarchy of evidence" as a criterion for judging the reliability of therapeutic decisions. EBM's hierarchy places randomized interventional studies (and systematic reviews of such studies) ...
rec_pub_19690324-evidence-based-medicine-be.htm


Supplier selection based on a neural network model using genetic algorithm.

16 Aug 2009 In this paper, a decision-making model was developed to select suppliers using neural networks (NNs). This model used historical supplier performance data for selection of vendor suppliers. Input and output were designed in a unique manner for ...
rec_pub_19695996-supplier-selection-based-neural-network-model-using-genetic-algorithm.htm


Assessing the usefulness of health-related quality-of-life trials: a clinician's perspective using two COPD examples.

16 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To empower clinicians to discern when health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) evidence from a single trial, or from constituent trials within a systematic review or meta-analysis, is compelling enough to alter clinical practice. DATA ...
rec_pub_19690221-assessing-usefulness-health-related-quality-life-trials-clinician-s.htm

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