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Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity.

30 Jul 2009 Any mentally competent adult has the right to give or refuse consent to treatment or nursing intervention. The ethical principle underpinning this free choice is respect for autonomy, and the nurse's professional duty to respect the decision of the ...
rec_pub_19717992-covert-medication-older-adults-lack-decision-making-capacity.htm


A dialectical analysis of an art of dental hygiene practice.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: There has been little in the literature to date that speaks of an art of dental hygiene compared to science. Yet, science, conceived as the findings from research, does not apply itself; it is the knowledge, judgement and skill of ...
rec_pub_19659719-a-dialectical-analysis-art-dental-hygiene-practice.htm


Racial and ethnic differences in preferences for health states and the implications for cost-utility analysis.

30 Jul 2009 Aims: Cost-utility analysis is an economic evaluation technique that takes into consideration individual preferences for health outcomes. It is crucial to determine whether racial and ethnic groups differ in preferences for health states because ...
rec_pub_19670997-racial-ethnic-differences-preferences-health-states-implications-cost.htm


[Living donor liver transplantation: the decision experience]

30 Jul 2009 Living donor liver transplantation is a treatment choice for end-stage liver disease patients who face a shortage of currently available donated livers. The decision process involved in living donor organ donation has been described as a complicate ...
rec_pub_19634104-living-donor-liver-transplantation-decision-experience.htm


To take or not to take genetic carrier tests: personal characteristics associated with taking recommended and nonrecommended tests.

30 Jul 2009 AIMS: Genetic testing has become a routine part of prenatal care, the test being offered according to ethnic origin. However, not all clients take the offered tests while others take unnecessary tests. The present study aimed at examining the ...
rec_pub_19580440-to-genetic-carrier-tests-personal-characteristics-associated-taking.htm


Likelihood ratio, optimal decision rules, and relationship between proportion correct and d' in the dual-pair AB-versus-BA identification paradigm.

30 Jul 2009 The equal-variance Gaussian signal detection theory (SDT) decision model for the dual-pair (4IAX) change-detection paradigm has been described in earlier publications. In this research article, we consider the equal-variance Gaussian SDT model for ...
rec_pub_19633356-likelihood-ratio-optimal-decision-rules-relationship-proportion.htm


Criterial noise effects on rule-based category learning: the impact of delayed feedback.

30 Jul 2009 Variability in the representation of the decision criterion is assumed in many category-learning models, yet few studies have directly examined its impact. On each trial, criterial noise should result in drift in the criterion and will negatively ...
rec_pub_19633342-criterial-noise-effects-rule-based-category-learning-impact-delayed.htm


Sexual assault prevention for women with intellectual disabilities: a critical review of the evidence.

30 Jul 2009 Although research has indicated that women with intellectual disabilities are significantly burdened with sexual violence, there is a dearth of sexual assault prevention research for them. To help address this serious knowledge gap, the authors ...
rec_pub_19650680-sexual-assault-prevention-women-intellectual-disabilities-critical.htm


Homo economicus? Neuroeconomics and other disciplines aim to identify the biological traits governing our financial behaviour, but not without accompanying criticism.

30 Jul 2009
rec_pub_19648960-homo-economicus-neuroeconomics-disciplines-aim-identify-biological.htm


Approved: 2010 updates to accreditation and certification decision rules.

30 Jul 2009
rec_pub_19731484-approved-2010-updates-accreditation-certification-decision-rules.htm

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