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RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

Some US states have introduced measures to increase voter participation. I develop a formal model of elections to study how these measures affect political outcomes. I find that at high enough levels, measures to increase turnout lead to candidates converging at the median voter’s ideal point, as candidates switch from choosing policies that motivate their partisan base to competing over centri...

This article uses a microsimulation model to estimate how freezing all remaining private-sector and one-third of all public-sector defined benefit (DB) pension plans over the next 5 years would affect retirement incomes of baby boomers. If frozen plans were supplemented with new or enhanced defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, there would be more losers than winners, and average family i...

Self-criticism of physicians and patient participation are the pillars of modern medical ethics and medical programmes. Patients expect risk minimisation from physicians, mostly without realising how much they could actively do themselves in this respect. But what about the willingness of German people to take risks, how high is it really at present? Direct empirical data are not available, but...

Abstract This thesis seeks to investigate how Brexit has affected the management consulting industry for United Kingdom and European Union firms. The topic is of importance EU/UK community since caused disruption which in turn created an opportunity analyze this costs study examines relationship by first summarizing events through annual order identify years presented most change. hypotheses st...

Main Objective: To describe the role of nurses in care provided to pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS, purpose recognizing importance this professional clientele, order seek support for a better quality life and treatment adherence decreasing possibility vertical transmission.

There is a burgeoning literature on IPO allocations to institutions with retail clientele typically being treated as a monolithic entity. However, there is potential for differential treatment of different groups of retail investors because of the underlying relationship with the underwriter. We use a unique proprietary dataset from Germany to analyze how commercial banks treat different groups...

Abstract Background Literature about participation in health and social services suggests that youth, more specifically Indigenous are difficult to engage within services. Youth less likely access or actively participate decision-making regarding their personal care. Service providers play a crucial role engaging youth based on the ways which they seek, establish, maintain relationships with fa...