After Group Health Cooperative implemented video-based decision aids for men with two common prostate conditions, rates of elective surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and rates of active treatment for localized ...
Mar 23, 2015
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Think fast: if you're running a race and overtake the person in second place, what position are you in? Many people instinctively respond that you're in first place. However, upon reflection, some people realize the correct ...
Jun 13, 2023
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With recurring waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, a dilemma facing public health leadership is whether to provide public advice that is medically optimal, or advice that is less protective but is more likely to be followed. ...
Nov 5, 2021
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To protect themselves from the potential harms of low value care, patients must take an active role in clinical decision making, according to the authors of a Perspective published today by the Medical Journal of Australia.
Jul 19, 2021
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Feeling torn about wearing a mask? Me too. I don't want to look like I'm virtue signaling or get funny looks. But I also want to be responsible about public health. I've ended up conflicted, wearing a mask one day but not ...
Aug 18, 2020
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A research team from the Global Strategy Lab (GSL) at York University looked at border closures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and concluded that many were ineffective, illegal and even when they did work, were ...
Mar 1, 2023
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Should healthy people be screened to help reduce their risk of fragility fractures? A new interactive online Fragility Fracture Decision Aid for shared decision-making can help clinicians and patients visualize their individual ...
May 8, 2023
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Three Lancaster University professors have argued that it is time to move beyond a medicalized approach to assisted dying.
Aug 30, 2023
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New research published today in the Journal of Gerontology has developed new ways to characterise older people who take multiple medicines and those who are open to "deprescribing", a process where medicines are reviewed ...
Nov 27, 2017
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You may have to be over a certain age to be a contestant on "Deal or No Deal", but children as young as five start to maximize their profits - in cookies - when making decisions similar to those on the show, according to ...
Jan 9, 2013
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