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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Medical Decision Making"”.
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Addressing adolescent religious manifestations within medical decision-making
… presumed to lack the capacity to make their own medical decisions but can give valid consent to medical treatment if they are found to be Gillick competent (i.e., the possession of sufficient maturity, understanding, and intelligence to enable him or her to fully understand the treatment …
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Preferences for shared medical decision-making: Cross-cultural perspectives
… differences in preferences for shared medical decision-making (SDM) by studying adults from the UK and Saudi Arabia. The aim of Study 1 was to gauge preferences for SDM in nonclinical samples from the UK and Saudi Arabia. Results show that there were indeed differences in SDM between …
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Assessing and improving knowledge of medical decision-making capacity
… the individual being assessed. While supported decision-making is recommended, it is not clear whether laypeople have sufficient knowledge to advocate for maximizing the autonomy of the person they assist. This study developed and evaluated a brief, computer-based intervention to increase …
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Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning and Off Policy Evaluation for Medical Decision Making
… OPE techniques which have become standard in the medical RL literature fail to perform adequately under simulated conditions. These results suggest that the performance of RL models in DTRs may be difficult to meaningfully evaluate using current OPE methods, indicating that RL for this application …
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Regulating medical decision-making: a qualitative study of fetal reduction in multiple pregnancy.
… evaluates the regulation and practice of medical decision-making where the context is that of a multiple pregnancy and where the question is whether or not to carry out a fetal reduction procedure. Three principal lines of inquiry are pursued: first, to understand more about the nature of …
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Socio-economic disparities in science knowledge, biomedical self-efficacy, and public participation in medical decision-making
… amongst, science knowledge, biomedical self-efficacy, and participation in medical decision-making. Chapter 2 investigates age-related bias in the science knowledge questions in the Wellcome Trust Monitor Survey Waves I and II. It also examines what evidence there is for three …
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Η λήψη αντικειμενικών αποφάσεων στην τεχνητή διατροφή με την βοήθεια ηλεκτρονικού υπολογιστή (Computer assisted medical decision making)
… by the recent advances in probability and decision theory, reintroduces a different form of Bayes's theorem that allows calculation of the patient's probability to develop NACs by adding quantities known as "weights". A weight combines information found in both a symptom's or sign's …
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Automated Measurement of Midline Shift in Brain CT Images and its Application in Computer-Aided Medical Decision Making
The severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to be characterized by the shift of the middle line in brain as the ventricular system often changes in size and position, depending on the location of the original injury. In this thesis, the focus is given to processing of the CT (Computer …
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Factors related to the information needs and desired level of participation of older women engaged in medical decision making
… prefer less information and involvement in medical decision-making scenarios than younger adults. No previous research has empirically explored the factors that might influence the information and involvement preferences of older adults in medical decision-making scenarios. The present study …
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Favoriser la communication entre les professionnels de la santé, le patient et ses proches dans le processus de choix de soins en contexte de maladie grave : planification d'une intervention dans le cadre d'une recherche-action
… in the communication surrounding the medical decision making process must be improved to insure health care quality. Objectives : The objective of this research was to describe how the communication between a patient, his kin and his health professionals could be improved in regards to …
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The Impact of Patient Empowerment on HIV Medication Adherence among a Nationally-Representative Sample of HIV-Infected Veterans
… that patients who take an active role in their medical decision-making have greater medication adherence and better health outcomes. Little research has been conducted on patient empowerment and medication adherence among HIV-infected patients. The aims of this study were to identify predictors …
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The Rhetorical Making Of An Illness: Medical Refusal, Trope, And Improvisation In A Somali Women'S Health Center
… broadly, and how these understandings influence medical decision-making. This study, developed in partnership with a Somali women's health center, asks how Somali parents understand autism, use services, and navigate divides between biomedical and other forms of care. To do so, I explore and …
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Compliance of Open Source EHR Applications with HIPAA and ONC Security and Privacy Requirements
… up of patient treatment plans, and precise medical decision-making process. EHR applications are guided by measures of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability. However, there have been reported breaches of …
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Building Context: Guiding Principles for Urban Bioethics and their Application via Qualitative Research
… field of bioethics originated from failures in medical research and provided a framework for medical decision-making and research ethics with the advent of its four core principles (justice, autonomy, non-maleficence, and beneficence). However, these core principles often overlook more complex …
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Healthcare Agents: Large Language Models in Health Prediction and Decision-Making
… (2) developing collaborative AI framework for medical decision-making. We first introduce a Health-LLM framework that performs multimodal fusion of temporal physiological signals from wearable devices with contextual metadata to predict health outcomes. By implementing novel context enhancement …
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Design of a goal ontology for medical decision-support
… efforts aimed at developing formal models of medical knowledge and reasoning to design decision-support systems. Until now, these efforts have focused primarily on representing content of clinical guidelines and their logical structure. The present study aims to develop a computable …
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A framework and guidance for design of patient-friendly medical decision aids
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Making medical decisions can sometimes be very complicated because it is affected by factors such as time, information, cost, patients’ health condition, etc. The traditional relationship of doctor to patient has put patients in a passive position of acquiring information and …
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Online decision problems with large strategy sets
In an online decision problem, an algorithm performs a sequence of trials, each of which involves selecting one element from a fixed set of alternatives (the "strategy set") whose costs vary over time. After T trials, the combined cost of the algorithm's choices is compared with that of the single …
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A Predictive Time-to-Event Modeling Approach with Longitudinal Measurements and Missing Data
… of a subject. It is of great importance for the medical decision making to investigate how the predictor variables including repeated measurements of the same subjects are affecting the future time-to-event. Such a prediction problem is particularly more challenging due to the fact that the …
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