Clarifying substituted judgement: the endorsed life approach: Table 1

Clarifying substituted judgement: the endorsed life approach.

A primary goal of clinical practice is to respect patient autonomy. To promote this goal for patients who have lost the ability to make their own decisions, commentators recommend that surrogates make their treatment decisions based on the substituted judgment standard. This standard is commonly interpreted as directing surrogates to make the decision the patient would have made in the circumst...

Substituted judgement on quality of life in patients with dementia

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

A geometric approach to judgement aggregation

The problem of judgement aggregation consists in aggregating individual judgments on an agenda of logically interconnected propositions into a collective set of judgments on these propositions. This relatively new literature (see List and Puppe (2007) for a survey) is centred on problems like the discursive dilemma which are structurally similar to paradoxes and problems in social choice theory...

Clarifying life lost due to cold and heat: a new approach using annual time series

OBJECTIVE To clarify whether deaths associated with hot and cold days are among the frail who would have died anyway in the next few weeks or months. DESIGN Time series regression analysis of annual deaths in relation to annual summaries of cold and heat. SETTING London, UK. PARTICIPANTS 3 530 280 deaths from all natural causes among London residents between October 1949 and September 200...