Does End-of-Life Planning Help Partners Become Better Surrogates?

Does End-of-Life Planning Help Partners Become Better Surrogates?

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study investigates the role of surrogates' involvement in their partners' end-of-life care planning, focusing on the relationship between the extent and type of end-of-life planning in which surrogates have been involved and the accuracy of their substituted judgments. DESIGN AND METHODS The data come from an internet survey collected by Knowledge Networks and the Na...

How Smart Operations Help Better Planning

This chapter discusses various roles of smart information in Supply Chains (SC) of digital age and tries to answer an important question What types of collaborative arrangements facilitate smart operations to improve planning, production and timely replenishment? We have conducted longitudinal case studies with firms practicing SC collaborations and also using smart information for operations. ...

Advance care planning and end-of-life decision making in dialysis: a randomized controlled trial targeting patients and their surrogates.

BACKGROUND Few trials have examined long-term outcomes of advance care planning (ACP) interventions. We examined the efficacy of an ACP intervention on preparation for end-of-life decision making for dialysis patients and surrogates and for surrogates' bereavement outcomes. STUDY DESIGN A randomized trial compared an ACP intervention (Sharing Patient's Illness Representations to Increase Trus...

Planning for the end of life.

Toward Better Training in Peer Assessment: Does Calibration Help?

For peer assessments to be helpful, student reviewers need to submit reviews of good quality. This requires certain training or guidance from teaching staff, lest reviewers read each other’s work uncritically, and assign good scores but offer few suggestions. One approach to improving the review quality is calibration. Calibration refers to comparing students’ individual reviews to a standard—u...