background: as an early step in the development of a decision aid for idiopathic trigger finger (tf) we were interested in the level of decisional conflict experienced by patients and hand surgeons. this study tested the null hypothesis that there is no difference in decisional conflict between patients with one or more idiopathic trigger fingers and hand surgeons. secondary analyses address th...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) – which in certain cases is used interchangeably with the term cost-utility through use of QALY-has been established as pinnacle decision-makin...

The space immediately surrounding us is known to be represented relative to our hands, i.e. in a hand-centred coordinate system (peri-hand space, PHS) (Graziano, Hu, & Gross, 1997; for review see; Brozzoli, Makin, Cardinali, Holmes, & Farn e, 2012). Individuals born without a hand (hereafter onehanders) manually interact with the world differently, potentially altering the representation of the...