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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"treatment decision making"”.
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Chronically Ill Adolescents' Involvement in Health Treatment Decision Making
… of chronically ill adolescents in health treatment decision-making; describe, explain and predict relationships and differences in self-confidence in decision-making between older and younger chronically ill adolescents; and explore relationships between severity of symptoms and …
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Factors affecting treatment decision making for women with breast cancer
This study examined the factors affecting treatment decision making for young women with early stage breast cancer. Thirty women, aged 35 to 52 years, were presented information about two equally effective chemotherapy treatments following surgery for breast cancer using an educational instrument …
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Factors associated with health literacy and participation in treatment decision making
Tausta: Heikko terveyden lukutaito on yhteydessä lisääntyneeseen sairaalahoitoon ja vähentyneeseen seulontoihin hakeutumiseen. Osallistuminen päätöksentekoon saattaa lisätä potilaan tietämystä omasta sairaudestaan ja sen hoidosta, lievittää hoitoprosessiin liittyvää ahdistusta, parantaa terveyttä …
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Treatment Decision Making in African American Women Diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer
… diagnosis, considerable attention is extended to decisions regarding treatment. These efforts include, but are not limited to, immediate emotional and mental management, resource availability, belief in treatment outcomes, and consideration of short and long-term quality of life outcomes. …
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Increasing the Participation of Persons with Mental Illness in Mental Health Treatment Decision-Making
… to meaningfully participate in mental health treatment decision-making. This thesis answers the pivotal question of how we can increase the participation of involuntarily treated persons in the mental health treatment decision-making process. To achieve this goal, a participatory model of …
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An exploration of treatment decision making and psychological wellbeing of men with prostate cancer
… various psychological aspects of diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. However, the profile of both the epidemiology and treatment of prostate cancer is constantly changing. In particular, the incidence of younger men (under age 55 years) being diagnosed with prostate cancer has risen …
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Primary care patients’ preferred roles in treatment decision-making in an era of increased health information
… care patients’ preferred roles in health care decision-making in an era of increased health information and how these preferences related to perceived health information literacy and trust in their physician. Methods: This research applied a multi-methods design. The first phase involved …
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Could the values or value system of a competent person, disclosed in a living will, play a role in medical treatment decision-making processes under the Mental Capacity Act 2005?
… adult patient prior to administering a medical treatment.1 The need for consent underpins the right of a competent adult patient to refuse treatment, even life preserving treatment. Accordingly, bodily inviolability is a fundamental principle of law and violation of it, even for benevolent …
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Patient Cohort Visual Analytics for Post-Treatment Care
Post-treatment decision-making is a process that depends on longitudinal studies of patient cohorts, in which identifying the risk of adverse treatment outcomes is critical to improving personalized care. This process benefits from visual analytics because it can overcome many of the challenges …
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The Future of Medical Futility in Ontario
… physicians to justify withholding or withdrawing treatment. In Ontario, the present dominance of patient autonomy in healthcare ethics suggests medical futility has no place in treatment decision-making. In Cuthbertson v Rasouli, the Supreme Court was tasked with deciding whether physicians have …
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Towards Precision Oncology: A Predictive and Causal Lens
… elements can be woven together into a clinical decision support tool. In this thesis, I explore each of these aspects in turn: i) first, I build different models of clinical time-series data, with a focus on prediction of survival outcomes and forecasting of core biomarkers, ii) next, I design …
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Stepping up, stepping back, being pushed, and stepping away : the process of making treatment decisions for children with cancer by parents who no longer live together
… of this study was to describe the process of treatment decision making for parents of children with cancer who no longer lived together. Fifteen biological parents and stepparents of eight children with cancer who had made a major treatment decision in the past were interviewed. Using grounded …
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Modeling Diverse Treatment Policies from Observational Health Data
… expert assumption. We study sequential clinical treatment decision making in the offline imitation learning setting, where environment interaction is prohibited, reflecting the challenges of experimentation in safety critical domains. Existing methods for multi expert offline imitation learning …
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AI/ML tools for early decision making in water system operations: managing non-stationarity water quality
… impact water quality and complicate water treatment decision-making and performance. Many water system managers do not account for these variations systemically and instead respond reactively as watersheds shift from perceived normal states. To enhance their operational resilience and …
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Decision-making in older women with breast cancer: a mixed methods study
… less likely to be offered or receive standard treatment. Aim The overarching aim of this study was to establish the information needs and decision-making preferences of older women diagnosed with primary, operable, oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer and faced with a choice of surgery or …
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Implementation of an Evidence-Based Educational Workshop and Toolkit: Menopausal Women's Healthcare Needs for the Primary Care Provider
… patient-provider communication and joint treatment decision-making. Two pilot workshops were delivered at Lifelong Brookside Clinic as a test of change. Outcome measures were pre and post-tests that assessed knowledge of menopause health care and comfort level discussing menopause. Change …
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Multi-segment coordination within the foot in children with and without clubfoot during walking, toe raises and single limp hopping
… have significant foot deformity that requires treatment at birth. Long term outcomes in patients who were treated for congenital clubfoot have reported gastrocnemius weakness, limited ankle motion and reduced ankle power during gait. There have been few studies, however, that have directly …
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The Experiences and Needs of Younger Couples Affected by Prostate Cancer: a Qualitative Study
… challenges navigating their way through treatment decision making and finding the information and support they needed. Couples’ engaged in a range of different strategies and behaviours which influenced their adjustment to PCa and subsequently impacted upon the evolution of their identity …
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Differences in Internalized Weight Stigma and the Treatment of Clients in Larger Bodies Among Mental Health and Medical Professionals
… observed whether this bias (a) impacted their treatment decision-making and (b) whether the amount of training in weight-related care impacted one’s bias. The findings of this study did not show any differences in implicit or explicit weight bias between medical and mental health professionals, …
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