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Decision-making Strategy (decision-making + strategy)
Selected AbstractsRepresentational fluency in HIV clinical practice: A model of instructor discourseTHE JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS, Issue 3 2007Mary A. Banach PhD Abstract Introduction: Clinicians treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients are expected to stay up-to-date with rapidly changing knowledge and practice. Continuing medical education (CME) programs are one source of new knowledge about HIV clinical management. Little is known about instructor-participant discourse in HIV CME programs and whether or how instructors model their decision-making strategies. Methods: Discussions about clinical cases between instructors and participants in attendance at a HIV CME program were videotaped, transcribed, segmented, and coded, focusing on the participants' questions and the instructor's responses. Results: Twenty-four case studies involving four instructors and 45 participants (54% infectious disease clinicians and 46% general practitioners) were analyzed. Five case studies are presented herein to illustrate how the instructors use the participants' questions and case studies to model cognitive processing and decision making in HIV treatment practice. Discussion: This article provides a model of interactive and practice-based teaching discourse in the context of an HIV CME activity. Throughout this discourse the instructors model the fluent use of representations for the CME learners and provide a safe environment where participants can share their misunderstandings. [source] Empirical tests of the recognition heuristicJOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING, Issue 3 2006Rüdiger F. Pohl Abstract The recognition heuristic postulates that individuals should choose a recognized object more often than an unrecognized one whenever recognition is related to the criterion. This behavior has been described as a one-cue, noncompensatory decision-making strategy. This claim and other assumptions were tested in four experiments using paired-comparison tasks with cities and other geographical objects. The main results were (1) that the recognized object was chosen more often than the unrecognized one when the recognition cue was valid; (2) that participants' behavior did not reflect the recognition validity of their own knowledge; (3) that a less-is-more effect (i.e., better performance with less knowledge) was either absent or of only small size; and (4) that judgments were influenced by further knowledge, which could even compensate for the recognition cue. In sum, the recognition cue represents an important piece of knowledge in paired comparisons, but apparently not the only one. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Torts to contract¿ moving from informed consent to shared decision-makingJOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2008Edward P. Monico MD Many claims of medical malpractice arise from a breakdown in communication between physician and patient. As a result, medical decision-making may change from an informed consent model to a shared decision-making strategy. Shared decision-making, a contract derivative, will trigger contract obligations and change the face of medical malpractice from tort to contract. [source] 1264: Laboratory work-up and specialized investigationsACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 2010U PLEYER Based on the anatomical involvement of the eye intraocular inflammation is classified into anterior, intermediate, posterior and panuveitis. All subtypes of uveitis are potentially related to infectious and noninfectious etiologies. This presentation will assist the participants in accurately diagnosing uveitis in a step latter approach including physical and laboratory investigations. In addition, a tailored approach based on confounding clinical observations with specialized investigations will help to further differentiate clinical entities. In cases of suspected intraocular infections the option of intraocular fluid evaluation for antibody testing and polymerase chain testing against the causative agent will be presented. Taken together, this part of the course will provide a rational decision-making strategy for diagnosis of patients with uveitis. [source] | ||||||||||