Judgment is the capacity to make decisions after considering available information, contextual factors, possible solutions and probable outcomes. Our aim was to investigate previous research studies regarding assessment of judgment in older adults with different degrees of cognitive impairment. To this end, a search of Pubmed and Lilacs electronic databases for studies published from January 19...

introduction: critical thinking as a process of purposeful self-regulatory judgment leads to problem solving and correct decision making in individuals. in the modern world, health care faces rapid change and burgeoning amount of knowledge. possessing critical thinking is essential for individuals in health care centers, specially when they are forced to solve clinical problems. the aim of this...

As a customer-driven product development methodology, quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used methodology to translate customer requirements (CRs) into engineering characteristics (ECs) to achieve higher product performance and customer satisfaction. Product planning house of quality is of fundamental and strategic importance in the QFD system. Each customer has different preferences...

Prominent evolutionary theories of morality maintain that the adaptations that underlie moral judgment and behavior function, at least in part, to deliver benefits (or prevent harm) to others. These explanations are based on the theories of kin selection and reciprocal altruism, and they predict that moral systems are designed to maximize Hamiltonian inclusive fitness. In sharp contrast, howeve...

Decision makers have been found to bias their interpretation of incoming information to support an emerging judgment (predecisional information distortion). This is a robust finding in human judgment, and was recently also established and measured in physicians’ diagnostic judgments (Kostopoulou et al. 2012). The two studies reported here extend this work by addressing the constituent modes of ...

The Theory of Technology Dominance (Arnold & Sutton, 1998) proposes that the continued use of intelligent decision aids in the audit task has the effect of deskilling auditors over time. This research proposal presents a study that extends and validates this theoretical framework through an integrated conceptual model. The research question examined is ‘does the continued use of intelligent dec...

Objective This study investigated third-year students' experience with the emergency medicine (EM) component in integrated longitudinal programs. The study aimed to see if EM could be integrated into third-year integrated longitudinal programs while addressing accreditation standards and increasing interest in EM. Methods The authors surveyed students who participated in an integrated longitudi...

Auditing is a branch of the social sciences and social components that affect the attitude of the auditor and the type of mental attitude of individuals that affects their professional judgment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of mediating the philosophical mindset of auditors on the effects of social responsibility and social intelligence on professional judgment. The sta...

Introduction: Many criteria such as USMLE scores, applicantresumes, Dean’s letters, recommendation letters, personaldiscussions, interview scores and medical school transcripts canbe used to predict the success of a medical trainee in the USA. Thisinformation is either relatively objective, or subjective. It would bevaluable if we had some objective measures that m...