How clinical decisions are made

How Technology-Purchasing Decisions Are Really Made Understanding How Influence Networks Affect the Success of Major Technology-Purchasing Decisions

How Fertilizer Recommendations Are Made

Recommendation, as we use the word here, means advice from a soil or crop specialist to those deciding how much of, what form of, and when to apply a fertilizer to a soil to benefit growth of a plant or crop. Recommendations of fertilizers and soil amendments must consider the interactions of all the factors discussed in this manual, including the soil, the crop, the climate, the beneficial eff...

How Much are Emergency Medicine Specialists’ Decisions Reliable in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Fractures?

  Background: Considering the importance of an early diagnosis and proper decision-making in regards to the treatment of pediatric distal radius and elbow fractures, this study examines emergency medicine specialists’ accuracy in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients. Methods: From 2012 and 2013, children less than 14 years old who were referred to an academic hospital emergency departm...

How are decisions made in cancer care? A qualitative study using participant observation of current practice

OBJECTIVES Shared decision-making has continuously gained importance over the last years. However, few studies have investigated the current state of shared decision-making implementation in routine cancer care. This study aimed to investigate how treatment decisions are made in routine cancer care and to explore barriers and facilitators to shared decision-making using an observational approac...

New insights into how seeds are made

Citation: Sabelli PA and Larkins BA (2015) New insights into how seeds are made. It is difficult to overstate the importance of seeds for the evolutionary success of the spermato-phytes and the development of human cultures and their survival. For hundreds of millions of years since their appearance in the Devonian period, seed plants have colonized many environments , thanks in part to several...