Assessing Quality of Healthcare Delivery When Making Choices: National Survey on Health Consumers’ Decision Making Practices

Assessing Patient Participation in Health Policy Decision-Making in Cyprus

Although the importance of patient participation in the design and evaluation of health programs and services is well-documented, there is scarcity of research with regard to patient association (PA) participation in health policy decision-making processes. To this end, the present study aimed to validate further a previously developed instrument as well as to investigate the degree of PA parti...

The first national Olympiad on reasoning and decision making in Health system management an experience Report

Introduction: Health system management is regarded a chief duty and skill of health care providers. However, medical students do not receive enough training for it. The first national Olympiad for students of medical sciences was designed to motivate students for acquiring managerial skills, improve reasoning and problem solving skills, and also propagate team working in students in an excitin...

Integrated Decision Making – The Choices

Survey nurses’ collaboration in clinical decision making

Introduction: Nurses are the largest care delivering group. They have to judge in clinical ‎setting and by team work detect and solve patients’ problem in nursing function domains. ‎Collaboration in decision making helps this function. ‎  Objective: Present study aims to determine the level of nurses’ collaboration in clinical ‎decision making employed in edu...

A Family Decision-Making Model of Health Insurance Choices

In this paper we evaluate the health insurance choices of families enrolled in a directcontracting model developed by an employer purchasing alliance. This is the first study that has constructed an intra-family utility model of health plan choice. We construct individual utility functions by using stated preferences of individual family members and the attributes of different health benefit op...