Health decision making

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity management is essential to provide high-quality healthcare for critically ill patients. Yet, consensus on the most favorable ICU design is lacking, especially whether ICUs should deliver dedicated or non-dedicated care. The decision for dedicated or non-dedicated ICU design considers a trade-off in the degree of specialization for individual patient care and efficient use of resources for society.

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A significant proportion of patients and informal caregivers favor an active role in decisions concerning their health. Simultaneously, governments aim to shift treatment from a professional care setting to a community setting, in light of an ageing population, a decreasing number of health workers and allocation of scarce resources.

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Existing knowledge on healthcare use and costs in the last months of life is often limited to one patient group (i.e., cancer patients) and one level of healthcare (i.e., secondary care). Consequently, decision-makers lack knowledge in order to make informed decisions about the allocation of healthcare resources for all patients.

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The rapid evolution, complexity, and specialization of oncology treatment makes it challenging for physicians to provide care based on the latest and best evidence. We hypothesized that physicians would use evidencebased trusted care pathways if they were easy to use and integrated into clinical workfow at the point of care.

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Patient-centredness has become a central quality indicator for oncology care. Elements include shared decision-making, patient navigation and integration of psychosocial care, which impact patient-reported and clinical outcomes. Despite efforts to promote patient-centred care in Germany in recent decades, implementation remains fragmented.

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The intricate balance between the advantages and risks of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) impedes the utilization of lung cancer screening (LCS). This study aimed to explore the decisional needs and support for shared decision-making for LCS among health care providers and high-risk groups in China.

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Part 1 book 'Evidence-Based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice" includes content: Urinary incontinence; catheter associated urinary tract infection prevention; oral health care; managing oral hydration; nutrition; mealtime difficulties; family caregiving; issues regarding sexuality; substance misuse and alcohol use disorders; mistreatment detection; health care decision making,... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "Davidson's principles and practice of medicine" includes contents: Clinical decision-making, clinical therapeutics and good prescribing, clinical genetics, clinical immunology, population health and epidemiology, principles of infectious disease, poisoning, envenomation, environmental medicine, acute medicine and critical illness, infectious disease, HIV infection and AIDS.

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Genomics-informed pathogen surveillance strengthens public health decision-making, playing an important role in infectious diseases’ prevention and control. A pivotal outcome of genomics surveillance is the identification of pathogen genetic clusters and their characterization in terms of geotemporal spread or linkage to clinical and demographic data.

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Part 1 book "Fundamentals of nursing - standards and practice" includes content: Evolution of nursing and nursing education; nursing theory; research and evidence based practice; health care delivery, quality and the continuum of care; critical thinking, decision making and the nursing process; assessment; nursing diagnosis; planning and outcome identification; implementation; evaluation... and other contents.

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Ebook "The forest and the city: The cultural landscape of urban woodland" introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial. Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal.

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Existing research on the perspectives of patients with cancer and health care professionals indicates that patient decision making on cancer clinical trial participation is a complex process and may be poorly understood, possibly compromising their decision to participate.

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Part 2 book "Large dairy herd management" includes content: Mastitis and milk quality, animal and herd welfare, herd health, business and economic analysis and decision making, effective management of farm employees, precision management technologies.

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Part 1 book "BSAVA manual of manual of canine and feline shelter medicine, principles of health and welfare in a multi animal environment" includes content: What is shelter medicine, ethics and animal welfare, pragmatic decision-making in the charity situation, concepts in free-roaming population control, shelter metrics,... and other contents.

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Over past decades, epidemiological patterns of liver cancer (LC) have changed dramatically. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides an opportunity for tracking the progress in cancer control with its annual updated reports at national, regional and global level, which can facilitate the health decision-making and the allocation of health resources.

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This paper aims to develop a scale for hard-life experiences through the psychological sense. Past hardships can impact individuals' cognition, stress levels, and resilience. This scale can be applied in various research areas, such as psychology, health, behavior, and decision-making in organizations.

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Part 1 of ebook "Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes" provides readers with contents including: introduction to economic evaluation; making decisions in health care; critical assessment of economic evaluation; principles of economic evaluation; measuring and valuing effects - health gain; measuring and valuing effects - consumption benefits of health care;...

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The assessment of financial health of a company plays an important role in helping stakeholders making their decisions. There have been many tools to assess the financial situation, the use of artificial neural network has been recently applied widely and shown certain advantages. Artificial neural network (ANN) are information processing model, which were studied by the nervous system of the organism, including large numbers of neurons linked to process the information.

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To report on the state of the science of clinical decision support (CDS) for hospital bedside nurses. Materials and Methods: We performed an integrative review of qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed original research studies using a structured search of PubMed, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Applied Health Literature (CINAHL), Scopus, Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Xplore Digital Library).

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To understand the different types and causes of prescribing errors associated with computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems, and recommend improvements in these systems. We conducted a systematic review of the literature published between January 2004 and June 2015 using three large databases: the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, and Medline.

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