INTRODUCTION We tested the effect of a brief disposition process intervention on residents' time to disposition and emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) in high acuity ED patients. METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study design in a single teaching hospital where ED residents are responsible for administrative bed requests for patients. Enrollment was performed for intervention ...

We find evidence for the disposition effect for buy strategies, but a reverse disposition effect for sell strategies, besides a dependence of the disposition effect on the investor sophistication. The disposition effect also depends strongly on the time horizon of a trading strategy. We develop a model in which informed traders with a behavioral bias and rational traders interact to generate th...

Economists have long been puzzled by the tendency of investors to sell winning investments too soon and hold losing investments too long. Several behavioral explanations for this phenomenon, known as the disposition effect, have been advanced. This paper demonstrates that disposition effects are not intrinsically at odds with rational behavior. Specifically, we show (i) that disposition effects...

A fundamental part of self-awareness is understanding your disposition, or how you tend to perceive the world, behave, and respond to others. Personality: Personality is an important aspect of disposition. It forms from birth through young adulthood and represents tendencies that are not easily changed. Given that, knowing how your personality traits are similar to and different from those arou...

This paper utilizes the disposition coefficient to verify whether disposition effect exhibits in Taiwan and Chinese stock markets during the periods of financial crises, and to discuss the differences of the disposition effect between appreciation and depreciation periods. The empirical results show that during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, disposition effect significantly exhibits in the bo...

We hypothesize that EPs can decrease the time to disposition when performing examinations for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) compared with disposition times using imaging specialists (IS). We performed a prospective, single-blind observational study at an academic ED over the course of 1 year. Patients were enrolled based on study physician availability. EPs ordered the corroborative ultrasound, ...

Objective. To determine (1) the uniformity of disposition decisions made by clinicians working in Australian emergency departments (EDs) using vignettes describing patients presenting with deliberate self-harm or suicide risk; (2) factors associated with these decisions; (3) factors associated with confidence in these decisions. Methodology. We validated and distributed by email an online surve...

Hepatic drug disposition is different in normal and diseased livers. Different disease types alter disposition differently. What are the responsible micromechanistic changes and how do they influence drug movement within the liver? We provide plausible, concrete answers for two compounds, diltiazem and sucrose, in normal livers and two different types of cirrhotic rat livers: chronic pretreatme...

background critical thinking disposition has been recognized as an essential feature in nursing. objectives we conducted this study to determine the effect of guided questioning on the disposition of critical thinking among nursing students. materials and methods in this quasi-experimental study, all the second year nursing students (n = 54) from tabriz nursing and midwifery faculty of iran in ...