We present the result of an experiment that examines the subjective responses of radiologists to a prompting system designed to assist with screening mammography. The results suggest that we should re-conceive our notions about the value of False Positive (FP) prompts. We conclude that the eeectiveness of a prompting system operating at a given sensitivity is a function of the types of FP promp...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to support people with cognitive impairment through speech-based dialogues that guide them through everyday tasks such as activities of daily living. The research objectives were to simplify the design of prompting dialogues, to automate the checking of prompting dialogues for syntactic and semantic errors, and to automate the translation of dialogue designs into a form t...

Learning protocols are a promising follow-up course work. A learning protocol is a written explication of one’s learning processes and outcomes. According to the self-regulation view of writing-to-learn, such writing assignments have to be supported. In this study, learning protocols were structured by prompts to elicit important learning activities as they are postulated in a cyclical model of...

The effectiveness of a video feedback and self-management package was assessed with various inappropriate behaviors exhibited by six youth with mild mental retardation. The procedure consisted of (a) videotaping participants' inappropriate behavior, (b) having them self-monitor and record their behavior, (c) prompting them to evaluate their behavior against a criterion, and (d) allowing to rein...

BACKGROUND Checklists are clinical decision support tools that improve process of care and patient outcomes. We previously demonstrated that prompting critical care physicians to address issues on a daily rounding checklist that were being overlooked reduced utilization of empiric antibiotics and mechanical ventilation, and reduced risk-adjusted mortality and length of stay. We sought to examin...

There appears to be a growing tendency in the recent literature to ascribe the defects of memory seen in organic amnesic states to difficulties of activation (recall) rather than to those of registration or organization of impressions. This was foreshadowed by the clinical observations of such workers as Korsakoff (1889) and Bonhoeffer (1904), who remarked that amnesic patients might be able to...

OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of prompting physicians on health maintenance, answer questions regarding the mode of delivery, and identify opportunities and limitations of this information intervention. METHODS Systematic electronic and manual searches (January 1, 1966, to December 31, 1996) were conducted to identify clinical trial reports on prompting clinicians. Three eligibility criteri...

We present an "affirmation as perspective" model of how self-affirmations alleviate threat and defensiveness. Self-threats dominate the working self-concept, leading to a constricted self disproportionately influenced by the threat. Self-affirmations expand the size of the working self-concept, offering a broader perspective in which the threat appears more narrow and self-worth realigns with b...