... observations regarding
Table 1: Table of metritis score definitions and examples of present usage in practice.
Scores Clinical signs - vaginal examination Cases
Practical scoring Decisionmaking on treatment
0 ... of each individual
cow, indicating that decisions can differ both within and
between herds.
At the farm level, the veterinarians seemed to integrate
farm-related information into the decision ... followed their own
definitions of different scoring values, such as excluding
certain scores (see examples in table 1). They find the def-
initions incorrect. If the veterinarian strictly follows...
... FROM INTENTIONS TO BEHAVIOUR
Work in WP4 investigated different aspects of the relation between
childbearing intention and behaviour, including an exploration of the factors
influencing the ... (Fishbein and
Ajzen 1975). The TPB has been used in thousands of studies aiming to
explain which factors influence the formation of intentions to engage in
certain behaviours and which factors in ...
childbearing among women of higher childbearing ages, period fertility rates
increased in most of the developed countries in 1998-2008, leading to a
reversal of the longstanding trend of declining...
...
guiding decision making.
One approach intended to make test scores more
informative for decisionmaking is value-added mod-
eling (VAM), which controls for prior achievement in
estimating ... problems in
schools receiving the lowest ratings. In several IFL
districts, administrators used information gathered in
Learning Walks to determine whether teachers and
principals were implementing ... e remainder of this paper is divided into four
sections. Section one describes what is meant by data-
driven decision making, including its origins, a theoret-
ical framework for thinking about...
... Freedom, Decision Making: Eteocles and Others 136
i. Fate 137
ii. Freedom 150
iii. Decisionmaking and states of mind 162
Conclusion 172
References 177
Index Locorum 189
General Index 198
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... society, while maintaining public order. A government has the functions
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... Chapter 003. Decision- Making
in Clinical Medicine
(Part 1)
Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 3. Decision- Makingin Clinical
Medicine
Decision- Makingin Clinical Medicine: Introduction ... problem-solving behavior.
Despite the great technological advances of medicine over the last century,
uncertainty still plays a pivotal role in all aspects of medical decision- making. We
may ... alone. Uncertainty in medical outcomes creates the need for
probabilities and other mathematical/statistical tools to help guide decision-
making. (These tools are reviewed later in the chapter.)...
... Chapter 003. Decision- Making
in Clinical Medicine
(Part 2)
The following three examples introduce the subject of clinical reasoning:
A 46-year-old man presents to his internist with ... therefore more influential on clinical judgments.
The third commonly used cognitive shortcut, the anchoring heuristic,
involves estimating a probability by starting from a familiar point (the anchor) ...
complaint of hemoptysis. The physician knows that the differential
diagnosis of hemoptysis includes over 100 different conditions, including
cancer and tuberculosis. The examination begins with...
... make teaching diagnostic reasoning difficult is that
expert clinicians do not follow a fixed pattern in patient examinations. From the
outset, they are generating, refining, and discarding diagnostic ... disease is the underlying cause. The absence of a resting
Chapter 003. Decision- Making
in Clinical Medicine
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Diagnostic Hypothesis Generation
Cognitive scientists studying the thought ... examiner to the exclusion of all other inputs until answered, allowing the
examiner to move on to the next specific question.
Negative findings are often as important as positive ones in establishing...
... patients. In both cities, physicians unconsciously
adopted their practice styles to the available level of hospital beds.
Other environmental factors that can influence decision- making include ... are less likely to overreact to foreseeable problems in therapy such as a rise in
creatinine levels or symptomatic hypotension. Other intriguing research has shown
a wide distribution of acceptance ... lagged behind (a conservative practice style, associated in this
case with older physicians). As a group, internists lagged several years behind
gastroenterologists.
The opinion of influential...
... vulnerabil-
ity to the increased in ammatory insult inherent in
subgingival margin placement.
Figure 1.10 Recurrent caries is noted at the most apical
extent of a deep subgingival interproximal restoration.
Results ... accu-
mulation at the restorative margin–tooth interface
is a consistent finding in both research and clini-
cal practice (74–81). If this margin is subgingival,
the resultant increased plaque accumulation ... thus reducing the
buccolingual osseous ledging and eliminating re-
verse architecture, as well as forming an interprox-
imal osseous peak, had the greatest effect on col
Figure 1.4 As the in ammatory...