Informing the public about medicine

Communicating with the Public about Integrative Medicine

Informing patients about group adverse events.

Group adverse events are those affecting a multitude of individuals rather than a single patient. Although uncommon a group adverse mishap has the potential to cause widespread patient harm and wreak havoc at the implicated institution. The ensuing investigation and surrounding publicity can impact adversely on public confidence. The quantum of error varies enormously. On the one hand the error...

Informing Consumers about their own Preferences ∗

We analyze a model of monopolistic price discrimination where only some consumers are originally sufficiently informed about their preferences, e.g., about their future demand for a utility such as electricity or telecommunication. When more consumers become informed, we show that this benefits also those consumers who remain uninformed, as it reduces the firm’s incentives to extract informatio...

Informing South African Students about Information Systems

At the University of Cape Town, females and students disadvantaged under the previous South African apartheid education system are under-represented in Information Systems (I.S.) classes. This research shows that these are also the groups most ignorant about I.S. at the school-leaving stage. After being informed about the discipline through a small intervention, a significant increase in enthus...

Informing Students about Information: Seven Semantic Exercises

Information is a term widely but carelessly used in our day-to-day language While used poorly as a common expression, a growing number of recent publications on information have identified the importance of the term for both IS research and practice. Most of these publications, seeking to anchor the term more specifically, attribute meaning to information to distinguish it from data. In this pa...