Legal and Extralegal Factors Influencing Judge's Penal Decisions

Factors influencing decisions on organ donation in brain death patients

Organ donation is an integral part of the health care system. Many patients who have had an accident or have undergone a progressive disease are in need of an organ transplant and if they do not receive the required organ they would die. It is important to know that the most important source of organ donation is the brain death patients. It is highly essential to determine the pivotal factors t...

Notes on the German legal and penal system.

Factors influencing elderly women's mammography screening decisions: implications for counseling

BACKGROUND Although guidelines recommend that clinicians consider life expectancy before screening older women for breast cancer, many older women with limited life expectancies are screened. We aimed to identify factors important to mammography screening decisions among women aged 80 and older compared to women aged 65-79. METHODS Telephone surveys of 107 women aged 80+ and 93 women aged 65-...

Legal Decisions and Integrated Systems

1: Legal decisions In the field of legal informatics research it has also been argued that knowledge based systems, and especially expert systems, could be of considerable assistance to lawyers and, therefore, many experiments have been carried out on automated advisory systems. An expert system is software that simulates the reasoning of one or more human experts (usually the author or authors...

Factors Influencing Triage Decisions in Patients Referred for ICU Admission

BACKGROUND Few data is available on triage of critically ill patients. Because the demand for ICU beds often exceeds their availability, frequently intensivists need to triage these patients in order to equally and efficiently distribute the available resources based on the concept of potential benefit and reasonable chance of recovery. The objective of this study is to evaluate factors influen...