Medical Decisions
Exclusive or Concurrent Competence to Make Medical Decisions for Adolescents in the United States and United Kingdom
... seeking medical attention if their parents were to be informed) and risk-benefit analysis (the patient does not face serious risks and choice of treatment does not involve complex ...for medical ...
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Parens Patriae and Parental Rights: When Should the State Override Parental Medical Decisions?
... courts’ decisions in Evans and Gard is the fact that courts are deciding, literally, who lives and who ...life-saving medical treatment was in the best interest of the child; it determined that life itself ...
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Cognitive biases associated with medical decisions: a systematic review
... on medical errors and patient outcomes in real medical encounters and inter- ventions or using guideline-based ...on medical decisions or ...on medical decisions and in- ...
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Influence of response shift and disposition on patient-reported outcomes may lead to suboptimal medical decisions: a medical ethics perspective
... on medical decision making is only taken into account to a limited extent - and usually only implicitly - in consultation rooms, and not at the level of healthcare ...Consequently, medical decisions ...
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Medical and moral considerations regarding complex medical decisions in older patients with multimorbidity: a compact deliberation framework
... complex medical decisions, we present a compact deliberation framework that could assist physician(s) in charge of the medical treatment of a specific elderly patient to systematize his own thinking ...
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An Illustration of the Intersection of Social Science and the Law: The Legal Rights Of Adolescents to Make Medical Decisions
... In H.L. v. Matheson (1981), Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote the opinion upholding a statute requiring a physician to notify “if possible” the parents of girls under 15, living at home, and not emancipated. 17 He ...
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Medical Decisions: An Appeal for Reasonableness
... And vital decisions (previously out of public view when they were made in the privacy of the home by the trusted family doctor and the parents), were now highly visible and made by a con[r] ...
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Patient involvement in clinical research: why, when, and how
... Abstract: The development of a patient-centered approach to medicine is gradually allowing more patients to be involved in their own medical decisions. However, this change is not hap- pening at the same ...
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Herding: a new phenomenon affecting medical decision-making in multiple sclerosis care? Lessons learned from DIScUTIR MS
... public, medical decisions are based on private ...erroneous decisions may arise, which could lead to medical errors as observed in clinical practice and legal ...
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Rough-Mereology Framework for Making Medical Treatment Decisions Based on Granular Computing
... The medical field is considered as one of the most significant research ...several medical approaches based on knowledge discovery in the database have been proposed and ...help medical experts to ...
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Factors contributing to lack of interest in research among medical students
... the medical student’s education are an important factor for attracting a greater number of doctors to careers with a research ...among medical students, and to suggest ways to help students develop an ...
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Attitudes towards the sharing of genetic information with at-risk relatives: results of a quantitative survey
... making decisions about disclosing and receiving genetic information in families is extremely complex and based on much more than statistical ...to decisions being based upon attitudes towards possession of ...
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A Holistic Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of the Synthesis of Horsepox Virus
... T here has been considerable consternation about the chemical synthesis and “re- booting” of horsepox virus, an orthopoxvirus, now published in PloS One (1). Horsepox is not a significant disease for humans, but there is ...
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND PATIENTS' TREATMENT PROCESS IN FAMILY PHYSICIAN PLAN IN SHIRAZ IN 2016
... Referral system acts as a communication bridge and directs service providers and clients from the lowest to the highest levels and vice versa. Since hospitals, as one of the most important social organizations, play a ...
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Need to know: the need for cognitive closure impacts the clinical practice of obstetrician/gynecologists
... Accurate decision making is crucial in medicine, as mis- takes can have dangerous consequences. Physicians, in spite of their extensive education and years of experience, are not immune to the impact of a low tolerance ...
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Competencies for first year residents – physicians’ views from medical schools with different undergraduate curricula
... increasing medical knowledge ...clinical decisions [24] and at the same time convince them that uncertainty may persist Table 2 Ranking order of the 25 competencies by all participating ...
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Assessment of providers' referral decisions in Rural Burkina Faso: a retrospective analysis of medical records
... In summary, in a typical rural district of Burkina Faso, we found that a substantial numbers of adult pneumo- nia were incorrectly diagnosed; nonetheless, those who were correctly diagnosed were appropriately referred. ...
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Using a multi method, user centred, prospective hazard analysis to assess care quality and patient safety in a care pathway
... in medical staff in training positions (and who had short term appointments) about the admission processes of the supported discharge ...based medical records for some of the follow-up clinics, and the ...
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Planning for incapacity by people with bipolar disorder under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
... Bipolar disorder provides a particularly relevant context for the study of advanced planning. It is a cyclical condition affecting 1.4 per cent of the population (Merjkangas et al 2007; Merjkangasand Lamers 2012) and is ...
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Older patients' attitudes towards and experiences of patient-physician end-of-life communication: a secondary analysis of interviews from British, Dutch and Belgian patients
... Background: Older patients often experience sub-standard communication in the palliative phase of illness. Due to the importance of good communication in patient-centred end-of-life care, it is essential to understand ...
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