Getting Stuck in a Rut with Decision-Making

Ventilation-perfusion lung scanning: stuck in a rut?

Published online: July 17, 2014. 2014;55:1395-1396. J Nucl Med. Michael M. Graham Perfusion Lung Scanning: Stuck in a Rut? − Ventilation http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/9/1395 This article and updated information are available at: http://jnm.snmjournals.org/site/subscriptions/online.xhtml Information about subscriptions to JNM can be found at: http://jnm.snmjournals.org/site/misc/permissi...

“Getting stuck with LAM”: patients perspectives on living with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

BACKGROUND Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare, progressive lung disease that affects almost exclusively women and is most often diagnosed before menopause. The main symptom of LAM is shortness of breath. LAM patients' perceptions of how the disease impacts their lives is largely unknown, but such information could be useful to generate patient reported outcome measures for use in drug tri...

Decision making in forest management with consideration of stochastic prices

  The optimal harvesting policy is calculated as a function of the entering stock, the price state, the harvesting cost, and the rate of interest in the capital market. In order to determine the optimal harvest schedule, the growth function and stumpage price process are estimated for the Swedish mixed species forests. The stumpage price is assumed to follow a stochastic Markov process. A stoch...

Clinical Decision-Making: a Way to Professional Empowerment in Nursing

Background. The dynamic and uncertain nature of health care environment requires nurses to be competent decision makers and to respond to the clients needs. Recently, the public and the government have criticized Iranian nurses because of a low quality patient care. However, the nurses’ views and experiences concern- ing the factors affecting their clinical practice and clinical decision making...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making