OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to gather qualitative and quantitative data on criteria considered by healthcare decision makers. METHODS Using snowball sampling and an online questionnaire with forty-three criteria organized into ten clusters, decision makers were invited by an international task force to report which criteria they consider when making decisions on healthcare interventi...

objective : to ascertain cancer patients' views regarding disclosure of diagnosis in the pakistani population, anxiety levels after disclosure of the diagnosis, interest in knowing all the treatment options and desire to inform their families. patients and methods : in this cross-sectional study, 147 cancer patients from different hospitals in pakistan were asked questions to determine their op...

> Business decision makers were asked to evaluate and use various information reports, as might be supplied by an information system, in several decision making scenarios. Multi-dimensional scaling was utilized to detect underlying perceptual dimensions of the information (differentiation ability), and to assess the importance or salience placed on each of these various dimensions (discriminant...

Over the years, the emergence of innovative and revolutionary integration technologies (e.g. Enterprise Application Integration [EAI], Service Oriented Architecture [SOA] and more recently – Cloud Computing) has highly influenced the top management in their decision-making process – decisions that are imperative to transform Local Government Authorities (LGAs). LGAs that plan to adopt such inte...

CAPE Internet Talk was started as part of CAPE follow-up activities to continue ties with CAPE alumni and those who are interested in professional development in English teaching. It is hoped that this would increase our bond and aloha among former participants, and that the information in the TALK would help our alumni and friends/members review what they know and deepen their understanding of...

Eye tracking is used to investigate the procedures used in choice problems between two lotteries. Eye movement patterns in problems where the deliberation process is clearly identified are used to make inferences in problems where the deliberation process is less straightforward. The data provide little support for the hypothesis that decision makers use exclusively an expected utility type of ...