A shared decision making (SDM) tool promotes the collaborative decision making between patient and clinician for best treatment strategy. It is an additional tool to be used and supplements, but does not replace , informed consent procedures. As a useful aid to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons-American Dental Association (AAOS-ADA) Prevention of Orthopaedic Implant Infection in Pati...

There is a schism between science and practice in understanding and assessing personality. Approaches derived from the research laboratory often strike clinical practitioners as clinically naive and of dubious clinical relevance. Approaches derived from clinical observation and theory often strike empirical researchers as fanciful speculation. In this article, we describe an approach to persona...

Despite the absence of scientific evidence demonstrating the efficacy of the "liberation procedure" in treating multiple sclerosis (MS), thousands of MS patients worldwide have undergone the procedure. The study objective was to explore the experience of liberation procedure decision making for individuals with MS. Fifteen adults in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, each participated in an in-...

Decisions in the real-world contexts are often made in the presence of multiple, conflicting, and incommensurate criteria. Multiobjective programming methods such as multiple objective linear programming MOLP are techniques used to solve such multiple-criteria decision-making MCDM problems. One of the first interactive procedures to solve MOLP is STEMmethod. In this paper we try to improve STEM...

“grand policies” are based on philosophical foundation of political regimes, and they are related with strategic problems of political system. because of philosophical nature and strategic level of grand policies, it is recommended that they have not to be numerous. in iranian political system, official structure of policy making procedure begins by the expediency council. this council, accordi...

“grand policies” are based on philosophical foundation of political regimes, and they are related with strategic problems of political system. because of philosophical nature and strategic level of grand policies, it is recommended that they have not to be numerous. in iranian political system, official structure of policy making procedure begins by the expediency council. this council, accordi...

the productivity change of a decision making unit (dmu) between two time periods can be evaluated by the malmquist productivity index. in this study, we propose a method to compute the malmquist productivity index in several time periods (from the first to the last periods) on interval data in data envelopment analysis (dea). then, the obtained malmquist productivity index is compared with malm...

The current study compared the differential effects of choice and no-choice reinforcement conditions on skill acquisition. In addition, we assessed preference for choice-making opportunities with 3 children with autism, using a modified concurrent-chains procedure. We replicated the experiment with 2 participants. The results indicated that choice-making opportunities increased treatment effica...

This paper demonstrates a particular model for making the pricing decisions associated with hotel booking. Implementing such pricing decisions that are designed to optimize the profitability of the hotel forms part of a policy commonly referred to as yield management. The model utilizes forecasts of demand in individual market segments to capitalize on the willingness of people in one segment t...

We develop a procedure and the requisite theory for incorporating preference information in a novel way in the efficiency analysis of Decision Making Units. The efficiency of Decision Making Units is defined in the spirit of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), complemented with Decision Maker’s preference information concerning the desirable structure of inputs and outputs. Our procedure begins by...