The diagnosis and management of hypoxemic respiratory failure is part of the daily routine of anesthesiologists, intensivists, and respiratory therapists. However, identification of some pathological states can be challenging, and failure to rapidly diagnose them can lead to inappropriate therapeutic decisions with expensive and potentially severe adverse consequences. These decisions can range...

When making decisions, people group gains and losses. The way they choose to form these groupings, called "mental accounting", affects their decisions. Mental accounting is a powerful and intuitively compelling phenomenon. To this point, however, little attention has been devoted to the psychological principles that underlie mental accounting. In this article we explore the psychological proces...

For more than 30 years, decision-making research has documented that people often violate various principles of rationality, some of which are so fundamental that theorists of rationality rarely bother to state them. We take these characteristics of decision making as a given but argue that it is problematic to conclude that they typically represent departures from rationality. The very psychol...

One frequent piece of advice is not to “put all our eggs in one basket” and opt for multiple alternatives in order to minimize risk and uncertainty in our decisions. In a behavioral study involving decisions-from-experience, Ashby, Konstantinidis, and Gonzalez (2015) showed that participants follow an “irrational” strategy in choice selection which departs from maximization. As structural compl...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is an expensive medicine which is widely used for unlabeled indications. We conducted this drug utilization review (DUR) to evaluate the appropriateness of IVIG utilization in Tehran, Iran. This cross sectional study was conducted in a referral pediatric tertiary care hospital in Tehran. During a three month period in 2015, medical records of inpatients with IV...

Recently, investment in high technology companies boomed as people invested large sums of money even when there was little chance of the company being profitable. This is contrary to classical beliefs that investors have rational expectations and maximise their utility. Instead we must consider the idea that people are irrational and make decisions for many reasons, few of which involve a judic...

Objectives: The current study was designed to explain the causal relationship between irrational beliefs and the marital satisfaction based on the mediating role of the conflict resolution behavior and the marital stress. Methods: The research had a descriptive-correlational design and the statistical population of the study consisted of all married men and women living in Tehran in 1398, fro...

But there must be some further rules shaping the dynamics of prescribing than these heuristics, or alternately some of those listed must be capable of more than 1 application. Consider the dynamics of prescribing within the pediatric mental health field. Over the course of 25 years, the prescribing of stimulants to children has grown exponentially – primarily in North America. In this case, cli...