The current coronavirus pandemic forces us to realize the significance of the careful utilization of financial and health-care resources. At the same time, it is important to ensure the ability of urologists to function through this crisis to provide essential and emergency services. With regards to urological procedures, a triage of non-emergent operations is hence recommended considering vari...

BACKGROUND Health policy, guidelines, and standards advocate giving patients comprehensive information and facilitating their involvement in health-related decision-making. Routine assessment of patient reports of these processes is needed. Our objective was to examine decision-making processes, specifically information provision and consumer involvement in decision-making, for nine pregnancy, ...

Objective To understand how firefighters’ use of rules (i.e., standard operating procedures [SOPs]) and deliberative decision making operational discretion [OD]) interacts with acute stress. Background Current guidance for UK firefighters combines the provision SOPs, routine incidents, OD, under prescribed conditions (e.g., when there is a risk to human life). However, our understanding SOPs OD...

background : treatment procedures are the most common sources of pain in children. children with chronic diseases such as thalassemia experience many pains during painful procedures including at times of diagnosis, treatment and control of their disease. several methods have been reported to reduce pain. clinical professionals usually use distraction techniques to reduce pain. however, there is...

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have demonstrated a favorable benefit-risk profile in several thromboembolic disorders and are increasingly used in routine clinical practice. A number of real-world studies on DOACs are ongoing, and data published so far have shown broadly similar outcomes to those demonstrated in the respective phase III trials. Despite their beneficial attributes, bleeding ...

Patient-Reported ProblemsAfter Office Procedures Even though 83 million procedures are performed in medical offices in the United States each year,1 patients are only rarely asked about problems they experience after these procedures. This oversight may highlight a key opportunity to improve healthcarebecausepatientself-reporting isknowntoofferboth clinical and scientific value.2,3 To inform de...

This is an experimental study of fairness perceptions of different procedures for collective decision-making. Procedures that are equivalent in a materialistic sense are viewed differently by subjects in terms of fairness. More than 60% of our subjects belong to one of two “types”: “rational” types who have a materialistic view of procedures, and “emotional” types who exhibit a systematic fairn...