‘Reasonable adjustments’ for vulnerable patients

Preventing 'deaths by indifference': identification of reasonable adjustments is key.

People with intellectual disabilities are at risk of premature death due to failings in healthcare provision. To prevent this, it is important for healthcare services to identify and flag not only vulnerable conditions (including intellectual disability, dementia and mental health problems), but also the specific adjustments needed by individual patients.

Caring for our most vulnerable patients.

Initial Nonoperative Care Is Reasonable for Older Patients

Appropriate indications for rotator cuff repair are a fundamental treatment consideration for which there still remain substantial differences of opinion. Important issues include the short-term and long-term efficacy of treatment choices balanced with the risks of these decisions. It is only with well-performed, randomized controlled trials such as this one by Kukkonen et al. that better stand...

Running head: Reasonable Reasons Reasonable Reasons for Waiting

Recent decision-making research claims to establish that, in violation of Savage’s normative sure-thing principle, individuals often wait to acquire noninstrumental information and subsequently base their decisions upon this information. The current research suggests that characterizing individuals as pursuing noninstrumental or useless information may be overstated. Through a series of experim...

SWEBOK: Adjustments for Education

Workshop Summary The workshop will present a survey of the current uses of the trial version of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) guide in education. From this survey and from the discussions in other workshops, the participants will be asked to work on the appropriate ways to gather more information from the users, and on how to modify the guide in order for it to play its ro...